So where is this censorship going to stop? Are they going to say we are no longer accepting users from country A, B, C, D? Or claim the government ordered them to censor a list of addresses?
Thinking realistically — it's not going to stop. And yea, I'm pretty sure it's either due to government intervention or that they're taking extra safety precautions because they expect the government to interfere. It totally sucks, but I really don't blame them for the decision.
I think that's one of the reasons Satoshi actually disappeared. If you've got a centralized team, no matter how decentralized your software is, governments will have a weak spot to put pressure on and they'll sooner or later have to cave in. It's sad, since I like to give developers the benefit of the doubt that they don't
want to play along.