In reply to Peter Shaw.

The WordPress project is littered with arbitrary decisions.
If you’re going to make an arbitrary decision, then this, at last, is a good reason for one.
Look, you can have all the free speech you want. But WordPress.org isn’t a free speech platform. I had this very clearly pointed out to me by a lawyer when discussing the nature of whether the WP interpretation of GPL was valid or not – as she said “It’s their platform, and they can do what they like, frankly. They’re not obliged to provide you with a platform, no matter how unfairly you may think they run things.”
So that was that. I learned to deal with it.