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On March 9th, we added extra protections for this employee, including actioning content that mentioned the employee’s name or shared personal information on third-party sites, which we reserve for serious cases of harassment and doxxing.

Hm... They knew. They anticipated the negative reaction, but thought they could ban enough users and/or nuke subs to keep it under wraps. (As they usually do.) What they didn't anticipate was the level of furor... They were so heavy-handed, it backfired. This isn't going away now.