Sure. Taking a play book from what tech companies have been doing the last several years in general, and having it with a coincidentally timed motive. The modern thing to do today is to take away all of the APIs. All of them! Useful third party application? Banned. Try to work around it? Account / IP ban. Want to archive the site contents? Banned. Want to view public posts first party or third party? Nope, need an account for that - banned if you do anything which steps out of line.

What are these companies trying to hide? This one is at least, fairly self explanatory.