Gawker was a well known website with 23 million visit per month, and a Wikipedia page. This guy has 44k subscribers and no Wikipedia page. It's a stretch to go from "Thiel had a vendetta against Gawker" to "Thiel had a vendetta against this guy".

By contrast this involved flipping a switch. It was extremely easy.

If that were true you'd see much more people getting banned than one streamer with 44k subs.

You seem to be assuming that this is a large bank.