It's mostly deliberate. Current petition to revoke it has half a million signatures, and the government have stated they will ignore that.

Censorship is one of the advantages they like: https://freespeechunion.org/protest-footage-blocked-as-onlin...

I mean, this was in the manifesto for both the major parties - this is really not what the petition website is for, and it was never going anywhere. X flagging protest footage as adult content is not the endgame of some great british elitist conspiracy.

> both the major parties

The uniparty strikes again.

>X flagging protest footage as adult content is not the endgame of some great british elitist conspiracy.

No it is the prelude to a global elite conspiracy program to do anything they want with impunity.

> X flagging protest footage as adult content is not the endgame of some great british elitist conspiracy.

No indeed, but it might be the beginning of a political campaign.