Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop

Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by Voloskaya on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:41AM (#25942402)

> It’s a pretty classic tactic in the history of conflict

Yes when executed by a single coherent entity.

This is not it, unless you believe there is a powerful cabal controlling twitter, facebook, robinhood, discord etc.

They are all doing it independtly to limit the legal and/or financial risks for themselves. Getting people to "strike first" is not the intent, saving $ is the intent here.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by read_if_gay_ on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:38AM (#25943489)

Apple, Amazon and Google killing Parler in lockstep isn't coherent enough for you?

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by Voloskaya on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:25AM (#25944345)

No it's not, the moment Parler became a liability to them they dumped it. It for some reason it was to become good business again tomorrow, they would jump to host it again.

There is no intent on the part of the GAFAs to force the lower class into a revolution to get a pretext to squash them or any bigger "art of the war" plan behind those decisions than money.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by read_if_gay_ on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:00PM (#25945908)

Their motivation does not matter. The point is that effectively they are a single coherent entity.

Assuming no bad intentions doesn’t change the outcome of their actions.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by ceilingcorner on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:13AM (#25942984)

Doesn’t need to be a grand conspiracy, merely the same reaction by multiple independent entities.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by Voloskaya on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:23AM (#25944313)

You are talking about result, I am talking about intent. Yes the result might be the same, but there is no intent to "force him to strike first, thus giving you complete justification in your disproportionate response".

Only intent here is ass covering.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by Footkerchief on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:51AM (#25942552)

Money is the greatest coordinating force in the history of civilization.

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