"The site had been available to students at the end of last semester, according to Felipe Avila, a nursing student and a member of the student government. But when students returned from break to the Washington, D.C., campus this week, they found they could no longer access the site. No other social media sites seemed to have been affected, he said, and administrators did not notify students or faculty of the change."
""When I checked with our security they said that it was blocked because of certain content on the platform and also because of phishing and malicious links that are on that site," a staff member responded in an email to Avila. The ban wasn't entirely out of left field: In 2019, Catholic University banned access to the 200 most popular pornography websites after the student government passed a resolution advocating for such a ban."
Catholic University briefly restricted campus internet access to Reddit and then reversed the restriction the following day. Administrators attributed the block to an automatic restriction from a third-party source that controls access to pornographic sites. A nursing student and student government member reported Reddit had been available at the end of last semester but became inaccessible after break without notification to students or faculty. A staff member cited certain content on the platform and phishing or malicious links as reasons for the block. The university previously banned the 200 most popular pornography websites in 2019. Reddit is a social media platform with large user numbers and allows labeled explicit content that remains blurred until users choose to reveal it; nearly half of 18–29-year-olds reported using Reddit at least occasionally in early 2025.
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