People getting banned for all sorts of stuff certainly isn't new. Before there were large social media platforms that tried to serve everyone, there were lots o

People getting banned for all sorts of stuff certainly isn't new. Before there were large social media platforms that tried to serve everyone, there were lots of forums ran by random people, and you could get banned for pissing their admins off in any way. Large platforms that are neutral to a fault and super hesitant to ban are only a recent part of the internet, not an immutable fact of the internet.