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

Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by CrazyStat on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:07AM (#25944029)

> you end up having freedom of press only for the people who own one.

That's how things have traditionally been in the US, is it not? As far as I know there was never any law that would force me to allow someone else to use my (literal) printing press.

The exception is the FCC fairness doctrine, but the basis for that was that the "printing press" (RF allocations) is actually a common good, and was only granted to private interests in exchange for certain concessions.

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by dfxm12 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:20AM (#25944255)

It's how it is today and also how it was when the framers wrote the constitution. Benjamin Rush suggested a particular printer for Thomas Paine to work with to print Common Sense, because Rush knew not every printer would want to print it based on its content.

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