The "gateway" argument is absurd imo. The concept that social media companies are banning people for content that exists off of that platform is not normal, and people should stop acting like it's normal. It wasn't that way for a very long time.
And furthermore, with the "real ID required" for social media it's extremely dystopian. No alt accounts are possible. No restart. And cross-platform banning. Talk about an entire population of people walking on eggshells all the time. They used to call this the "cooling of free speech". It used to be something people cared about, back when they cared about free speech or privacy at all.
But now, the government that can't ban you because of the 1st amendment can tell a "pRiVaTe CoMpAnY" to ban you and that's totally fine (twitter files) then other social media companies will also ban you because you were banned on the other. Then because it's all tied to your real ID you're permanently silenced online and removed from "the public square"TM. So, that's basically fascism.
Kind of off-subject, but not really. People being banned by AI for the mere connection with content hosted elsewhere off-platform, with no way to appeal to a human, who never violated any rules. And when you add the ID, her ability to make a new account will disappear completely. Her ability to move to a new platform may even disappear completely.
I don't think any of these things are unrelated. A super-invasive, overbearing, sanitized, censored digital prison is being built. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.