Was aarong Coerced into banning RickyD?

After @RickyD was banned I didn't think much of it, he had been posting a lot of stuff that I was really surprised that he wasn't banned for in the past, however it really is strange that he was able to be here for so long, you'd think that aarong didn't really have a problem with him, and it just occurred to me now, shortly before he was finally banned, our resident Karen, @Jules, the guy who thinks that mass murder is acceptable if it harms someone who he doesn't like very much, and openly hates freedom of speech, claimed to have reported him to the anti-free speech authoritarian terrorist organization that is the Anti defamation league, demanding that Debate Island either ban RickyD, or be forcibly taken offline by the state, now I never liked RickyD, he was an authoritarian, a terrible debater, and somewhat crazy, but if Debate Island was coerced into banning, that is a violation of his freedom of speech, which is not acceptable under any circumstances. We can't have these bullies telling people what they can and can't say, or allow to be said on their own property. If aarong was coerced into banning him then I want to know, so I can speak up against this authoritarianism, I understand that he wasn't willing to risk having Debate Island shut down over it, but there has to be someone speaking up about it, otherwise they can control everyone.