> wouldn't that violate free speech though?

It's balancing the company's freedom of association against the individual's freedom of speech.

Look, the world criticised Facebook for facilitating a genocide in Burma [1]. There is a moral argument for American social media companies policing their speech to some degree. But that doesn't mean there shouldn't also be a process of appeal, data offloading, et cetera.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...