More seriously, I prefer not to post what would amount to my own speculation based on a few incomplete reports about those recent events. But if my understanding is correct, then banning was a rather milder expression of disapproval than was deserved in that case.
That reminds me of a line from Linda Ellerbee's book about her journalism days. As an employee at the Associated Press long ago, she had written an email intended for a friend, in which she had dished gossip about her bosses, then accidentally broadcast it out on the entire AP wire...
In her book she wrote (from my memory, may not be verbatim), "they fired me, but only because their lawyers informed them that they could not have me killed."