Restrictions on capital ship use

[Drake]

I'm not going to take any sides in this discussion, but I do have something to bring up.

The official player factions already have nearly total control over their area of space. So much control that they have instituted some very strict laws, such as the banning of all Mercenary and Freelancer ID'd ships, or deciding certain commodities which are not normally illegal are contraband in their space. They order people who show up in a system (though not on their scanners) to report to <wherever>, and if they fail to comply they're added to a KoS list. All of these choices are considered acceptable behavior for the controlling factions, and are 'in RP' for various reasons (such as mercs and freelancers taking bounties on them, or whatever).

How is banning unregistered capital ships within their ZoI, even (or perhaps especially) capital ships belonging to their faction, any different than the examples I listed above? How is kicking battleships out of their ZoI restricting to other people's fun and RP, but kicking out all Mercenaries and Freelancers isn't?

Note that this isn't an attack on the laws and restrictions imposed by some faction, they're just used as examples of rules which can be (in my opinion) just as restrictive as a ZoI ban on unregistered caps.