DePape testified that he was a fan of YouTube commentators Tim Pool and James Lindsay, and that it was Lindsay who convinced him that there are academics out there trying to poisong the nation's children and indoctrinate them into some sex cult.
IMHO, this is the meat of the matter.
With renewed pushes for monitoring online conversations by official agencies, (and the State of New York) this is setting up the official censorship/reprisal machine for the coming elections on social media.
Rights are lost by popular demand more often than top-down action, so this has to be made to appear to have that demand (dissenters can be wiped from the media with an algorithm or a few censor bots).
That is the real objective, here, the Pelosis are only incidental to this in that this incident (now that the narrative has been crafted) will be used to help make this a matter of 'public' safety.