Subreddits devoted to sports, videogaming and even geographic areas have opted to block links to Musk's X social network.

After months of controversy, capped off by Elon Musk's salute at the presidential inauguration, backlash against the tech mogul has hit a fever pitch.

If Elon Musk thought he could outshine Donald Trump at his own inauguration with a bit of edgelording, his bankrolling of the far-right and his own antisemitic tweeting mean that most people simply took it at face value as a Nazi salute.