You are right because people worship their celebrities these days and will never doubt whatever they are told by those influences. So the government took a good decision in going after influner. If they must promote, they should remain with the legal and probably regulated casino as this will save them a lot of stress from the authorities.
Yeah, there's been several cases where a lot of gamblers has been misled by simply listening to online influencers who advertised the wrong casinos. The truth is that, some of these influencers may even end up advertising a brand without even knowing that they are inauthentic and only get to realise the implications of their actions after those casinos must've already swindled the general public, and sometimes some of these influencers even end up taking the fall for it. So I also think that the government is not only helping or protecting the general public but also the influencers too.