Technology

No, I don't think that's what's happening here. I think people are theorizing that X is very likely to respond to pressure from Google and Apple threatening to deplatform them, and loudly complaining about them not applying their own rules equally is a great way to remind their internal lawyers to put pressure on them (insulting the CEOs is just a nice bonus).

Frankly, if the fallot here is a relaxed adult policy, that's still a win. LGBTQIA advocacy groups tend to get lumped in as 'adult', which is a problem for trans-affirming suicide prevention hotlines trying to save lives.

As for your slippery slope question, that Pandora's box is already open. Just half a year ago Mastercard and VISA put the strongarm on Valve and itch.io to let the payment processors ban any game they choose under the guise of pornography censorship. Pressuring a platform to censure an app 'for the sake of the children' just isn't the virgin ground you seem to think it is.

There is another battle: There is a fight to open up app installation on phones. The EU recently forced Apple to allow other app stores on iOS and Apple is fighting this as hard as you would expect. Apple & Google are taking 30% of each sale in their stores and are making bank. One of the arguments they are pushing is "safety". Only apps on their vetted app stores are safe, every other store is unsafe and so on. If they allow a child porn app in their store, all of their arguments in this debate are invalid. And that is also an important fact for that debate.