NO! The point is that anyone that said their NAME was getting banned, even if it was just in passing like the original incident where just AN ARTICLE with them mentioned in it got the poster banned. Why are you making declarative statements when you don't actually know anything about this?That the very idea people were talking about it proves it wasn't as big of a deal as they claim? The claim is everyone who was talking about it got banned, sure. Then how did anyone hear about it? I saw it mentioned all over the place, no bans.
I'm sure in like a UK subreddit people were banned, but why does r/Water care? Why did any other subreddit that didn't involve the mods or admins that wasn't banning anyone for talking about it involved in the least? Why mass protests to something that was by definition both an isolated event and one that had no impact on anything else?