We need to keep the internet free so we can see the rats.

Ray9

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We make decisions based on information, all information. A reasonable mind can take information from disparate sources, using that information like fragmented puzzle pieces to assemble a big picture. Yes, the devil can sometimes be in the details, but in this world where more information is available and accessible than at any time in history, the big picture is not everything, it is the only thing. How an established state of affairs comes to exist has a footprint and if one follows that footprint it can lead past and even to, malfeasance on the part of individuals that profit from a rigged system.

Making money from nothing has been the business of Wall Street for almost as long as it has existed. A tiny nucleus of clever people can manipulate the system to attain great wealth at the expense of average investors. Thieves like this exist and have always existed. They are seeded in our politics, our banking systems, our judicial process and more recently in academia.

They are seldom exposed because they control our local and federal governments as well as our media with money power in ways few of us are aware of. But technology is advancing at light speed and up until quite recently it has been a free speech free-for-all, prying up lids on cans of worms that have been hermetically sealed for decades.

We have all heard of La Cosa Nostra, literally translated as “this thing of ours”. It is a special clique in mob culture with its own rules to siphon money out of the system and it is illegal because the government cannot tax it. The tragedy in the US is that the government with its protection racket of taxation has become its own Cosa Nostra and we got a look into that window as an American president was “contracted” and iced in a four-year, planned fraudulent election.

But the Wall Street Cosa Nostra got a taste of exposure that has it fit to be tied. The social media site Reddit turned the tables on the reprobates that short-sell publicly traded companies getting rich while the companies and their employees go down. The powerbrokers dropped a dime on the Robinhood App and suddenly it went down.

We need to keep the internet free and in control of those that use it. It is the only light that shines on the rats that steal from us.
 
If you’re longtime Robinhood user, then you probably know this isn’t the first time the platform has experienced issues.
Some Robinhood users have come to see service outages like the one this morning as the norm.
 
If you’re longtime Robinhood user, then you probably know this isn’t the first time the platform has experienced issues.
Some Robinhood users have come to see service outages like the one this morning as the norm.
True, but an outage is not the same as a conscious shutdown in deference to power.
 
But the Wall Street Cosa Nostra got a taste of exposure that has it fit to be tied. The social media site Reddit turned the tables on the reprobates that short-sell publicly traded companies getting rich while the companies and their employees go down. The powerbrokers dropped a dime on the Robinhood App and suddenly it went down.
2021 is off to a wild start...

The GameStop Story Is Really About a Broken Economy and Pissed-Off Populace

"On the first Wednesday in January, America saw an insurrection.

"The second, an impeachment.

"The third, an inauguration.

"And on the fourth Wednesday in January, everyone got real fired up about a video game retailer’s stock price..."
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Maybe Henry would have known how to use the Internet to launch that revolution?
 
If you’re longtime Robinhood user, then you probably know this isn’t the first time the platform has experienced issues.
Some Robinhood users have come to see service outages like the one this morning as the norm.
True, but an outage is not the same as a conscious shutdown in deference to power.
After the SEC does the investigation we may know why.
 
Some Robinhood users have come to see service outages like the one this morning as the norm.
Perhaps "payment for order flow" explains Robinhood's behavior?

GameStop short squeeze - Wikipedia

"Following the decision by brokerage firm Robinhood to halt the buying of the stocks affected by the short squeeze, users on Reddit and other social medias called in question its relationship with Citadel Securities.[44][103][104]

"Bloomberg News had previously reported that 40% of Robinhood's revenues were derived from selling customer orders to market making (a.k.a. liquidity providing) firms including Citadel Securities and Two Sigma Securities, in a practice known as payment for order flow."
 

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