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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.
by kmonsen 6y ago
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?
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoIt 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.
- LunarRover 6y agoThat's rather unpleasant. Graham Linehan is an extremist, make no mistake.
- ping_pong 6y agoIt'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.
- fastball 6y agoAnd apparently HN is allowing it to happen here to because all the threads related to this keep getting flagged into oblivion.
- pas 6y agoSome HN users claim that it's because many HN users are tired of reddit this, reddit that...
- smegger001 6y agoI and many others are tired of twitter and facebook, and yet no one down votes stories about them. Why should reddit be different?