Obviously by that you mean, yawl can manipulate t

Obviously by that you mean, yawl can manipulate the message board with less restrictions? Because, any moderator who screens messages, and fails to act on violations by the members is clearly manipulating. And that is terms which violate the rules here and SEC's:

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"InvestorsHangout.com",

Terms And Conditions

4. Messages that are deemed by the moderator to be illegal or otherwise harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, of an inappropriate sexual or homophobic nature, racially or religiously offensive is not acceptable.

Contributions must not:

- contain any material which is defamatory of any person.

- contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.

- be likely to deceive any person.

- be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.

- be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.

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A. VIOLATIONS OF THE ANTIFRAUD PROVISIONS THROUGH MARKET MANIPULATION

Section 9(a)(2) of the Exchange Act, which prohibits the manipulation of the prices of securities listed for trading on a national exchange, makes it unlawful for a person to engage in a series of transactions that creates actual or apparent activity or raises or depresses the stock's price when done for the purpose of inducing others to buy or sell the security.

Section 9(a)(4) of the Exchange Act prohibits a person purchasing or offering to purchase or selling or offering to sell securities registered on a national securities exchange from making false or misleading statements for the purpose of inducing the purchase or sale.

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It is one thing to have and voice an opinion of a stock, but a whole different ball game when anybody dictates and violates what people are allowed to observe.