Re:Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that d...
by dragonwriter on Sunday January 31, 2021 @09:29PM
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> Finally - why assume a government agency is competent and has the means and resources required to act in a timely manner?
That's not the assumption.
The assumption is that facts manually assembled and reported by a government agency are already within the knowledge of that agency, so even if they don't have “the means and resources required to act in a timely manner”, you aren't helping by reporting those facts back to them.
(This may also be an unwarranted assumption , but it's a different assumption than you describe. I've definitely in the past—on behalf of a different government agency—frequently been involved in reporting facts assembled by one office of a government agency to the parties responsible for acting on that information in another office of the same agency who hadn't been informed of it.)
That's not the assumption.
The assumption is that facts manually assembled and reported by a government agency are already within the knowledge of that agency, so even if they don't have “the means and resources required to act in a timely manner”, you aren't helping by reporting those facts back to them.
(This may also be an unwarranted assumption , but it's a different assumption than you describe. I've definitely in the past—on behalf of a different government agency—frequently been involved in reporting facts assembled by one office of a government agency to the parties responsible for acting on that information in another office of the same agency who hadn't been informed of it.)