Reddit say they are preventing doxxing of an employee Admin named Aimee Knight, neé Challenor, who is also a member of a protected group as a trans person, by removing posts and links - and banning those responsible - mentioning their employee's name in connection with a series of events in their past, events that have been part of the public record for years, that have been reported in the mainstream national and political media including the BBC and The Guardian, and that have formed the subject of an independent investigation commissioned by a major political party, the report of which was released to the media and public by that political party, and which remains accessible online.

The events in question ran as follows:

The employee, a trans activist, was a prominent member of a top-five national environment-focused political party in the United Kingdom, and chair of that party's national LGBTQI wing, and had at one time stood as candidate to be the deputy leader of the party.

Their father had been charged with 22 severe and extreme sexual offences against a child. These offences occurred in the family home, and included rape of a child, assault of a child with electric shocks and the creation of indecent photographs of a child.

Subsequently, and while the father was out on bail pending trial, the activist hired him to work on their electoral political campaign as their Election Agent and to do other campaign work.

When the political party found out, they commissioned an independent investigation (which can be read online) and found that the activist had informally reported the charges to a friend in the party, but crucially had failed to mention the father's own involvement in the party as a member - nor his involvement the activist's campaign which was ongoing - and found the job the activist had given the father may have put him in contact with children and other vulnerable people.

Particularly troubling, the report found, was that in addition to the election agent job, the activist had engaged their father as a photographer, which, given the nature of some of the charges against him and that a political campaign interacts with children and vulnerable people as a matter of course, caused much alarm.

After the investigation concluded and the report was published, the party expelled the activist, their father and their mother. This was widely reported in the press at the time. The father was later convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison.

A while later, the activist's partner allegedly publicly admitted to writing erotic literature involving forcible sexual acts with a child, - though the activist and their partner claim that this admission was written by a hacker - leading to the activist being expelled from a second major political party, and to the activist resigning from a very prominent LGBTQ campaigning organisation and moving to the US, where their partner comes from.

This case has been very briefly mentioned in an article by a major British right-leaning current affairs magazine, referring to a blog post mentioning the activist and the affair written by the screenwriter of a number of popular British/Irish sitcoms. This screenwriter, previously one of the more prominent members of the British Twitterverse has in the past decade become known for being vitriolic in his anti-trans stance and this has essentially killed his career, and his marriage has ended over it.

Recently, Reddit hired the activist as an Admin, and they have been permabanning and taking down posts and comments that mention the two previous incidents in connection with the new Admin's name, as well as linking to the article by the magazine and the blog post by the screenwriter, and numerous articles by the press about the criminal case and the investigation.