If you read through the article, his appeal was originally rejected, and subsequent follow ups were also ignored.

It’s only the tweet, directed at proton for ghosting them, that went viral and eventually forced Proton’s hand to reinstate the account.

If a journalist has to go through this much trouble, what chance a common person from authoritarian or semi-authoritarian country have.

This loophole will certainly be misused by Governments to gag someone temporarily/permanently.