From the way this is described it sounds worrying and demonstrates the almost unlimited power of social media platforms to control speech when they want to, without accountability. Twitter should have an independent appeal system like Facebook now has through @OversightBoard
https://twitter.com/SteveBartlettSC/status/1478493053321195525
Social media platforms are not public authorities but they mediate public discourse in a way which is a lot like a public authority. They can learn a lot from human rights principles - including balancing between free speech and different social harms.
The Facebook @OversightBoard is certainly not perfect but it at least does attempt to use human rights and other principles to determine whether "moderation" decisions are appropriate or not, which is a start and should be what Twitter is doing too.
What would be interesting is if a media provider like Politics For All sued Twitter and attempted to imply some kind of natural rights/human rights framework into the contractual arrangements between the provider and user. But difficult - which shows the power imbalance.
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