I'm assuming it's in the tos that Robin hood can remove access to anything at anytime so that shouldn't be illegal. Same way twitter can ban orange baby. We are then allowed to protest/ boycott the decision in both cases. thats just free speech and free market so don't complain about people getting mad at robinhood. You got mad at twitter. They didn't feel pressured to change their stance. For what its worth, Robinhood does seem to be at least partially folding to pressure and reopening purchasing.
However, if citadel conspired with Robinhood to coordinate an attack on the price of a stock or stocks that is not a private company making a legal decision or free speech that is illegal market manipulation per current regulations.
There was a lot of complaining from the big boys when retail investors in a completely free and open forum merely spoke about gme stock data and made purchases accordingly. That was cited by then as fraudulent coordination (its not) worthy of sec intervention (its not). And then those same people loaded up shorts right before they had brokerages block retail from buying? Is this real life?
1000% not the same as Twitter banning orange baby.
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