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It's Patreon rules, and they can change them at their discretion. The Patreon rules and ToS are designed to protect Patreon, not the end user. Every company in the US and contract are designed that way. Again, without looking at the email or message about the F95 link from Patreon, it boils down to how it was interpreted.Everything is conjecture when it comes to Patreon. They obviously talk about AWAM in the message uploaded.
The question is why AWAM is now a problem when it wasn't in last years. The previous review from Patreon was specifically about the F95 link. The link was removed, the page got back to business. The link came back, the page was banned. Make the math.
You can't expect that Patreon send a message "Hey there is a link between AWAM and your Patreon page, we're busted! We made a lot of money but we can't close our eyes any longer, we're going to have trouble. Sorry dude, nothing personal, see you. Kindly."
Each Patreon TOS personnel reviews the tasks differently. It is possible that the first set of eyes reviewing only looked at a couple of things and came to one conclusion, but the second set of eyes saw what was happening. So, they took the necessary action that was deemed appropriate. And since they decided to remove the page, they were only going to state the facts on their side of why they removed his page. They are not going to go into elaborate details because if they did that, they would open up a door that might jeopardize them in their actions to remove the page.
The problem some or most people don't understand is that Patreon looked at this as if it were being used as a shell or a front for AWAM by selling DoL, which is what ultimately got him. He took the risk of developing an uncensored version that violated Patreon's ToS by distributing questionable content. I'm sorry to say that, in the end, it wasn't the link. He should have adhered to Patreon because he didn't operate under the ToS policy. Remember, Patreon has this on file, too, L&P was reviewed for having AWAM on their platform with the same content several years ago, and they told him to remove it, which is why we got DoL.