I don't think anyone is trying to protect you. Your "investment" is already dead meat. I am sorry that you lost money but there is nothing I could morally do to help you. The brokers are protecting themselves by preventing new buyers from being sucked in.
I was posting about CMKX long before the SEC halted it and the litigation was filed. The red flags have been waving for quite a while.
I want to see UC doing a "perp walk" and what little he hasn't already spent returned to investors.