Putting aside the surrounding argument of whether Twitter is right to have this content policy, and accepting for the sake of argument that this is the kind of

Putting aside the surrounding argument of whether Twitter is right to have this content policy, and accepting for the sake of argument that this is the kind of tweet that Twitter’s policy does censor (if haphazardly applied), I guess I don’t see the age of the tweet being necessarily relevant. All twitter content has long-tail reach, if Twitter has decided that they don’t want their service to ever have that content, then grandfathering old content doesn’t make much sense. The question of whether the content flagging was automatic is an interesting one. In other instances, such as James Woods (who is still in Twitter purgatory) [0], the message he received doesn't have any language that indicates that it was manually reported and flagged, which it most certainly was. Given how slow Twitter has been to roll out features in general, and Jack Dorsey's continued insistence on avoiding heavy handed moderation and policies, I have to doubt that Twitter rolled out an automated content system with such high potential of being an embarrassment. I don't know the author, but just because he isn't a frequent/recent Twitter user doesn't mean that an angry Internet mob from some other community hasn't decided to target his Internet accounts in general. [0] https://twitter.com/Millerita/status/1119655394899415040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1119655394899415040&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F46558%2Fjames-woods-twitter-jail-heres-tweet-got-him-amanda-prestigiacomo https://twitter.com/Millerita/status/1119655394899415040?ref...