>the government took it down to protect itself That's a far-fetched hypothesis, bordering on conspiratorial thinking. A more mundane, realistic -and more comm

>the government took it down to protect itself That's a far-fetched hypothesis, bordering on conspiratorial thinking. A more mundane, realistic -and more common- scenario: due to mistakes made (as noted in OP: downtime, misplaced data files, APIs needlessly changed, etc.,) the responsibility was transferred to another team.