that they're taking extra safety precautions because they expect the government to interfere.
According to this
tweet, they "are trying to protect the company and the project by minimizing the amount of these hackers and scammers using the coordinator and getting us in trouble. This should be in the rights of the company to do but believe me, none of us are happy about this."
If they really hate it, at least they should give user option to use different coordinator. I expect someone will try to run their own coordinator.