I mean, Copilot and ChatGPT are also banned on my Australian Government device for security, so there's some consistency at least.
In my department anyway.
Martial law was declared at 11pm and thr vote was passed at 1am. With the military blockading the parliament and a relatively short time frame when some may be asleep, I think many of those 110 can be given some slack.
Now, some of them may have voted against had they shown up, but I don't think it's fair to paint all of them as cowards.
I think the main reason to not make it completely free was so they could track information via the tap on. That way they have data to plan route adjustments in the future.