Facebook has never bothered hiding the fact that their definition of "hatespeech" is "anything that would not be popular on salon dot com or addictinginfo dot com." Zuckerberg even came out and said 2018 was going to be a crackdown on "hatespeech" and "false information," which have always been his euphemisms for anything Conservative. To see Twitter getting in on it is not surprising.
The good news is the more people they drive away, the more will come here to Steemit and the more people there are on Steemit reading material that resonates with them, the more the writers of that material will get paid!