"Distasteful" subreddits that consist of compromising photos of teenagers taken without their knowledge are to be tolerated. That's "free speech", the highest ideal at Reddit.
Meanwhile, "doxxing" of the people who traffic in those photos is forbidden. That's not "free speech", it's something else.
However, journalism that happens to disclose identities of Reddit trolls... that's not necessarily "doxxing". It's a fine line.
There is no intellectual clarity to these lines at all; they're simply gerrymandered around the proclivities of the most active Reddit users. I guess that's fine, but it's hard to pretend that there's any important ideal being defended by their management.
Meanwhile, "doxxing" of the people who traffic in those photos is forbidden. That's not "free speech", it's something else.
However, journalism that happens to disclose identities of Reddit trolls... that's not necessarily "doxxing". It's a fine line.
There is no intellectual clarity to these lines at all; they're simply gerrymandered around the proclivities of the most active Reddit users. I guess that's fine, but it's hard to pretend that there's any important ideal being defended by their management.