Robinhood fined $65M by SEC!

Robinhood Financial fined $65 million by SEC for misleading users https://t.co/mta3nou19J via @cbsmoneywatch Got Robinhood on a technicality. — . (@LarrySchweikart) January 30, 2021 Robinhood Financial has been fined $65 million for misleading its stock market customers about how the company makes its revenue from their trades, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday. The SEC fine … Read more

PHIL HAMBURGER: The Constitution Can Crack Section 230: Tech companies think the statute allows them to censor with impunity. The law is seldom so simple.

Section numbers of federal statutes rarely stir the soul, but one of them, 230, stirs up much fear, for it has seemed to justify censorship. Relying on it, tech companies including Google and Twitter increasingly pull the plug on disfavored posts, websites and even people. Online moderation can be valuable, but this censorship is different. … Read more

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Speaking fees are a form of graft. Legitimate industry experts will speak for free.

(I personally would regard it as a pretty good investment — like stupendously excellent.) Remember when liberals depicted Yellen's huge hedge fund speech fees as a feminist triumph & attacked the journalists who reported it for being misogynistic? I do.https://t.co/7cs91jc76S — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 29, 2021 Yep – it's hard for politicians to claim … Read more

Alabama Introduces Anti-Censorship Act- Big Tech Shitting their pants

This is a very underreported story, probably because it just happened. Alabama State Rep.Chip Brown and multiple co-sponsors have introduced the Anti Censorship Act which would prevent any corporation providing an online public forum from censoring speech (unless it involves direct calls for violence) if said corporation receives any tax dollars or economic incentives from … Read more

GME Soars 75% After-Hours, Erases Losses After Liquidity-Constrained Robinhood Lifts Trading Ban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KoMXfIXZWg In this video, we report the freshest news about the Reddit vs. Wall Street trading chaos, and all the market drama involving the latest developments of the battle between hedge funds and the RobinHood platform. And, of course, we expose why Redditors are howling in rage and taking their discontentment to the streets in … Read more

Hedge Fund Billionaire Claims Americans Are ‘Getting Checks From The Government’ And Investing ‘To Attack Wealthy People’ – Digg

Listen to this incredible crybaby pic.twitter.com/KmJvZpBQ59 — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 28, 2021 https://digg.com/2021/leon-cooperman-cnbc-gamestop-stock-price-interview A billionaire is outraged that regular people can use meager government help checks to invest. Considers it an attack to wealthy people.     h/t  freethinker78

Game Stop was just step One.

by Relative-Dig If the financial world freaked out by a couple hundred thousand people buying stock, imagine what would happen if just 10% people divested from all of it? Imagine for a second we stopped investing money into massive corporations that have a history of poisoning us, deceiving us and profiting off of us. Not … Read more