> Those who have pushed this type of behavior will quickly fold when forced to go toe-to-toe in actual conflict.

“toe-to-toe in actual combat”? WTF does this refer to? Rolling up on Twitter HQ in F150s with pintle-mounted machine guns?

I mean, I think—irrespective of whether the particular policy is “passive-aggressive” or not—most people involved in deciding content policies are, yes, not particularly interested in defending them “toe-to-toe in actual combat”. I am not sure why you think that's surprising; if someone offered to escalate a dispute about my coding decisions to actual combat, I’d choose not to engage if practical, too.