You can blame Jack Dorsey for all of it. When he started censoring newspapers, politicians, and presidents he painted a giant bullseye on all of big tech. Regardless of political leanings, as a politician you know that next time it might be you and your message being repressed, so it is best to get ahead of it. Just like newspapers and TV stations are kept in check by making sure no one person owns too many nor across too many markets, expect the same to happen to big tech. They will be broken up, forced to compete, and their money will get siphoned off to refill the coffers and make back all of the Covid stimulus spending.
Frankly it was inevitable because time and time again, politicians and celebrities violated Twitter's TOS and got away with it because of who they were and it eventually caught up to them.
I don't necessarily think Twitter was right to act in every single case that they did, but there were absolutely blatant examples of leaders violating Twitter's TOS. If you feel that politicians should be able to say anything they want all the time, then it's time call for abolishing the TOS altogether.
What actually happened is Twitter strained all credulity to avoid punishing Trump for constant rule breaking until he was out of power, because they knew he'd literally have them killed.
They're still surprisingly soft on Chinese officials right now.
