This article does not make it clear, but other sources are reporting this as FAA "grounding" the Falcon 9 until it is satisfied with its investigation.
As I posted before, this is probably the one of the last 3 Falcon 9 problems that can actually be stretched into a "public safety issue", but it is quite a stretch.
Compared to letting the Boeing 737 continuing to fly with at least 3 rudder jamming problems during landings due to "defective parts" and many planes apparently still having those parts, this seems like a lot of "stretch" on SpaceX and an incredible amount of "shrinkage" for Boeing. There is clearly far more at public risk from Boeing landing jets packed with passengers and flying over dense population areas with rudders that may not keep the plane lined up with the runway than for a space vehicle with nobody aboard to even crash without any control at all somewhere random on the planet - something that China does routinely.
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