No, their argument was that they shouldn't do anything about it because the two times they did it wound up causing every tinpot dictatorship to show up on their doorstep and demand they do the same for people that hadn't done anything wrong except piss off the wrong dictator. This is why rights exist in the first place: so that when some idiot erroneously says your sight is "enabling doxxing, harassment and DDOS-for-hire" when all you actually do is document the bad behavior of bad individuals on the internet, well, you don't get run out of town on a pole... because the guy with the pole knows that today it's you, but tomorrow it could be him.