It wasn't just COVID censorship. They freaked the fuck out after losing control of THE MESSAGE in 2016. All the social media companies had giant coping sessions where they freely discussed how to manipulate their own platforms to push only the establishment views. They were very worried their own Masters would punish them for "allowing" unapproved views to spread through their platforms no matter what the MSM was pushing.

COVID censorship, pearl-clutching over discussing voting irregularities in 2020, etc was all just more of the same weapon they spent years perfecting. Elon's exposure of the Twitter files is only about Twitter, but I bet you anything a lot of similar findings could be found within Facebook, Youtube, you name it.