The hypocrisy is that, when somebody was banned from a mere social media website for praising or implicitly encouraging violence, the argument was always skewed

The hypocrisy is that, when somebody was banned from a mere social media website for praising or implicitly encouraging violence, the argument was always skewed toward the legal (e.g. "doesn't meet the bar for imminent action"). Yet when confronted with the fact that it was a private platform, the arguments skewed away from the legal ("free speech absolutism"). And of course now that it's physical people being banned from a physical country, somehow the arguments are now reversed on principles, weaker, less passionate - despite the situation being more concrete/dramatic, rather than just social media moderation. It's never been about free speech - not morally nor legally - and the fact that they pretended it was is insulting to American principles.