Imgur faces user revolt as it starts to cull NSFW comments from site

Campaign against 'censorship' hits front page of image-sharing website popular on Reddit, after it finally acts on rules banning obscene and explicit comments

Image-sharing website Imgur accidentally sparked a user revolt on Tuesday, after it began removing obscene and sexually explicit comments from the site.

Imgur, which is in practice one of the largest social networks on the internet with 5 billion page views each month, has always had a rule in its community guidelines, under the rubric "always be civil", which bans obscene and sexually explicit comments - but until recently, the site's enforcement of the rules was lax.