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ETrade is considering banning meme-stock influencer Keith Gill off its platform (yahoo.com)
11 points by IronWolve on June 3, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


So is my understanding correct that only institutional investors are allowed to benefit from making outrageous public claims about the health of companies regardless of the claims basis in reality?


lol I see so many posts about this on this website:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40566821

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567028

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567951

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40569826

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40570525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573281

Anyway, in the morning, I and several others started seeing trend headline article for the day appear as:

> "couldn't be verified"

I referenced a bit about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d72zp0/bloomberg_u...

but then later E*trade Morgan Stanley headlines took over. I commented a bunch of links to lots of posts that I saw first on r/Superstonk regarding things mentioned here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PROGME/comments/1d7fmia/etrade_cons...


I don’t think they have any legal basis just because he put a screenshot of his account, twice, plus an Uno card. That is it… that is outrageous if they censor him for that. Extremely unfair to retail traders.


Shares of GME, which were briefly halted for volatility, pared gains to about 20%. AMC finished the day up roughly 10%.




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