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[JohnnyRothrock]

....my point was to highlight the SEC’s language....: i have never seen any U.S. government office use that kind of veiled threat to freedom of speech, in America, in my lifetime. And to then further suppress it going forward out of Fear (i.e. stocks could get shut down that are being pumped too much or by popular tweeters ...leaving every single trader or investor in OTC in an extremely unfair paranoid position, that resembles anything but free market capitalism).

If my post was itself paranoid and reached too far, thats fine, i hope it is. But i reread the SEC warning, and its borderline freedom of speech/censoring....and penny stock common sense/backwards craziness....:


“Today's order states that trading is being suspended because of questions about recent increased activity and volatility in the trading of these issuers, (isnt that the very nature of a new hot penny stock, normal par for decades?.) as well as the influence of certain social media accounts on that trading activity. (ok so we cant use Twitter or social media to find and get excited about stocks? omg...my stock is making money...i am now excited and telling others.......but no thats now wrong or could be interpreted as even lol illegal? Whaaaaaaa? AND is it fair that even one investor who does NOT use twitter, bought a security that gets shut down because some mindless pumper on Twitter drew attention to the stock he or she was in...and then SEC shut it down? No ...this is insane...) The order also states that none of the issuers has filed any information with the SEC or OTC Markets”...(This i agree with....and agree with SEC getting rid of all the scams they can......glad that they are doing this and this is EXACTLY what the SEC should be doing...the other two above mentioned circumstances that cast enormous ambiguous nets: no they shouldn't.........)



https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-35



Why were people here NOT also concerned about this kind of language to freedom of speech? IHub community of traders and investors has been lectured most mercilessly from day one on specific penny stock boards.....on scams and stocks that were not scams.....endless posts deriding this penny stock CEO and that penny stock promoter etc.....and some of this has been very helpful and we are thankful.....

....but when it comes to BIG picture things, Freedom of speech and how that is potentially being curtailed in veils of Fear by our own SEC/Government.......we get crickets? Are you kidding me guys? We need intelligent posters like some here ive always admired, to stand up at times to SEC when they cross the line...not just easy penny stock prey and iHub posters on the boards.