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A comment on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop. Parent comment

Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by staticautomatic on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:15AM (#25944170)
What is artificial about buying a stock and encouraging others to buy it?
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by kchr on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:33AM (#25944432)
Because the encouragement affects the outcome of your own investment instead of "happening on its own".
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by staticautomatic on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:13PM (#25945053)
So no one should be allowed to speak for or against buying or selling stocks they own?
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