Reddit has reportedly geo-blocked 26 posts in India following a government takedown order, according to Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), which condemned the action as secretive, disproportionate and unlawful.

According to IFF, Reddit submitted the government order to the Lumen Database on October 21, confirming compliance with the request to restrict access to all 26 URLs within India. The notice, listed as Lumen notice 100411498, does not identify the specific law invoked or the government agency that issued the order.

On 21 October 2026, Reddit, Inc filed with the Lumen Database a government takedown order from India covering 26 URLs and complied, so that all 26 posts are now geo-blocked in India (Lumen notice 100411498). The notice names neither a law nor an agency, since its “Laws/Regulations” field is blank and the request is attributed only to an “Agency”. The 26 posts sit in 18 subreddits, from r/Northeastindia to r/IndianDefense and r/myanmar, and were catalogued on 24 October by @geoblockedindia in a thread that also carries images of the notice. Irrational censorship does not advance national interest Nearly all of the blocked posts concern the India–China border.

They include open-source verification of PLA footage from the June 2020 Galwan clash, satellite imagery reported by Indian newsrooms, a Caravan essay, a TRT World report on Beijing’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh, maps ranging from the one China draws to users’ sketches of proposed new states, and a question put to Chinese users. Several are five or six years old, and three had already been deleted by their authors.