The major difference here is that Law Enforcement bound by Due Process, this entire ban wave is done via automated gold tracking with little regard to outside influences.
This major outside influence of course, is china's new policy on VPNs. (as evidenced in by the noticeable drop in black lotus and devilsaur camping these past few days). And what it looks like is a massive, and rushed cash out on dirty gold before it can be laundered properly and lost around in trade.
it is worth noting, that while there have been automated ban waves in the past, this one in particular has had a massive increase in appeals, as opposed to previous waves.
Because from what it looks like, its raiding/progression guilds that are getting hit hard here from selling large, single items (purple BoE's, excess Raid mats, flasks etc..). and they are not just the driving force of the economy, but the server as a whole.
Unless you're on that meme server, where they just glitch MC lol.