But banning them immediately after successful action against existing financial interests for "homophobic slurs" (or whatever the excuse was) is just... well, an excuse.
Yup, doubling in on what you said. If they were banned ages ago for that reason, okay. Understood. Especially if every group that uses slurs gets insta banned as well. Roger that. Thats a fair system. But doing so only when the financial overlords are getting hurt by that group? Come on, because regex was invented this week? Now they can easily find the slurs? This is a classic pissing in our pockets and telling us it's raining.
Agreed, it's an excuse and they should have been banned sooner if their language constitutes a rule violation. But I'm not really concerned about free speech when a group gets banned from a web service after violating its rules, even if the violation was just used as an excuse.
But banning them immediately after successful action against existing financial interests for "homophobic slurs" (or whatever the excuse was) is just... well, an excuse.