To me, that doesn't read like government pressure:
After 2 months thing seems to have settled down but there came a message in March 12th from a journalist working for the Financial Times asking questions about the criminal money laundering activities done through its coordinator and the broader space.
Everybody was shocked, I guess @HillebrandMax was less shocked, but overall the argument started that the blacklisting must commence because now the regulators will be onto us in Gibraltar.
The lawyers were called up and were discussing the options during the day about it.
Sounds like journalists were asking questions, and there was a fear of future regulations, so they started blacklisting preemptively. At no point then or since has anyone from Wasabi ever pointed to a piece of legislation and said "This is why we are now pro-censorship". Indeed, such legislation is only now starting to come out, long after Wasabi started censoring their users (and hilariously, such legislation is discriminating against Wasabi all the same despite their censorship).
Here's are a few quotes from Max Hillebrand in an interview a couple of weeks after they started censoring:
Just to be clear, there is no regulation that would compel this, and I don’t think that there would be anytime soon
This was just one preemptive move to help with the scaling of the company, because we think that now we can provide the service at a much larger scale while still having way less regulatory pressure than before