Check with your broker. Every company is different. If you buy on margin, they can probably do it anyway. Some will contact you and ask, even pay a fee. If you are not on margin setting a high sells price probably works.
The best way to prevent it is to have personal possession of the shares.
Some brokers will let you "box a position" to prevent the shares from being shorted, on a case by case basis.
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