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A comment on Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin.

Re:Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public ... by kmonsen on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:28PM (#26557628)
This is not doxing in any way is it? The person is using their own name, is a public figure, posted about their activities on twitter and can be easily Googled.

Would reddit ban anything about this if the person in question was not an employee?

I understand the concern about harassment, but should anyone be able to get off reddit if they want to? Let's say Roger Stone wants no mention of himself on reddit, should he be able to say please ban anyone that mentions me?

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Re:Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public ... by ping_pong on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:00PM (#26558072)
It's not doxxing. It's Reddit employees abusing their power to try to protect "one of their own". It's pretty bad if it's true.
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Re:Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public ... by fastball on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:35PM (#26560081)
And apparently HN is allowing it to happen here to because all the threads related to this keep getting flagged into oblivion.
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Re:Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public ... by pas on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:08PM (#26560422)
Some HN users claim that it's because many HN users are tired of reddit this, reddit that...
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Re:Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public ... by smegger001 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:53PM (#26560850)
I and many others are tired of twitter and facebook, and yet no one down votes stories about them. Why should reddit be different?
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Re:Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public ... by Mediterraneo10 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:49PM (#26557914)
It could be that some discussion of this person was linking to a Substack article with investigative reporting into this person’s kinks and polyamory, using their forum history over the last decade in a way that Reddit might see as doxxing.
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Re:Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public ... by LunarRover on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:23PM (#26558361)
That's rather unpleasant. Graham Linehan is an extremist, make no mistake.
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