I see you didn't actually read my post. They were NOT being shorted naked. If they had been in any significant way, they'd have been on the SHO list. They were just being shorted. Quite normally.
The shorts were right, and should not have been punished for that. People should indeed have noticed the increasing short interest, and should have realized that something was badly wrong with the companies in question.
But never mind. You don't understand a word I'm saying, do you?