I don’t see it as collusion if the group did DD and liked the stock. The issue is it was just a larger group of people so it swayed the stock so quickly. The fundamentals behind the play were solid and no one lied. That is the key therefore no one can be arrested here for the user community.
The only people that could be in hot water are the moderators if the SEC or any other governing body can prove they deliberately deleted negative posts and what not.
ROFLMAO!! For the record let me say that I didn't get in on the run up of Game Stop--WISH I HAD!!
But your notion that people talking up and pumping a stock is illegal is patently ridiculous. HELL..your are on Ihub,does no one pump stocks here? Does Jim Cramer pump stocks? There are also stock "clubs" all across the US who might have 20,100,500 members who discuss a stock and ALL of them buy into it.Oh my...go arrest granny for buying NVidia!!
Ihub boards and WallStbets can talk up and pump a stock all they want. They're not twisting your arm and forcing you to buy OR sell any stock.