I honestly don't understand people accept this kind of treatment and even pay for it. I've also heard stories of room searches where everything is torn apart because they suspect you might have a bottle of alcohol somewhere.
It's like going to a prison and paying for it. A pretty gilded one sure but still.
If there were real safety concerns I could understand but usually it's just because they want you to buy their overpriced drinks and internet service. After already paying a fortune for the trip.
I guess you might also find when people start getting ill the ship mysteriously has an outage of internet. I bet much like on an airplane, the Captain gets to decide if it's on or off for the passengers. Having a Starlink is a bypass. When you don't want people seeing CNN reporting the latest about which countries and ports turned you away, you want to turn off the internet to prevent the potential for mass hysteria?
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I think the justification for denial of communication equipment is hijackings. Protecting their wifi revenue is an ostensibly unexpected benefit.
The whole thing sucked ass TBH and I'll never condemn myself to spending a week on a bloody cruise ship - or "ocean liner" - again.