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I don't know. They may think it's impossible to have an advantage, but there's always an incentive to find that loophole. Forbidding employees to play on others' sites at least disincentivizes it a bit.

Also, I don't think it's too surprising that FD or DK don't enforce their rules too harshly. As long as they are making a lot of money, why do they care?

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That's true - as soon as you close one option, people look for the next one. I'm still not in favor though. I just feel like it's an over-the-top response that potentially fails to address the real problem. It won't be too hard for employees to just use their friend's accounts. If the focus isn't on preventing access to the data and instead on a misguided attempt to cut it at the knees, then the problem's still there.. kind of reminiscent of a lot of bad government policy.

They'll care about it becomes an impediment to them making lots of money, which seems like right now.

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