On the face of it, allowing people to bet via VPN is a pretty obvious problem. A lot of the sports betting platforms work hard to counter tactics to spoof your location. You may not catch 100% of the schemes and techniques, but they do expect you to go beyond due diligence to mitigate it.
However, because this platform was delved much more into political speculating, the conspiracy theorist in my wonders if the feds using that as an excuse because they don’t like being able to access the specific identities of who is betting on who, because they wont a full dossier of data aggregation on EVERYONE’s political activities and proclivities.
“... allowing people to bet via VPN is a pretty obvious problem...”
Not being able to “control” a “created problem” usually means it is a common desire, hurts no one and should not be anyone’s else’s business....certainly not the jack-boot Praetorians of Imperial DC.
Drugs, gaming, whoring, untaxed liquor, etc have existed for 5,000 years and has always been an excuse to “crack down”.
Go with the conspiracy theory by the rotten to the core Doj & fibbies.