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The connection is pretty conspiratorial. By that logic every company in the valley could be heavily influenced to shutdown products for different people if it
by boringg 6y ago
The connection is pretty conspiratorial. By that logic every company in the valley could be heavily influenced to shutdown products for different people if it as any connection to a VC (which is pretty much every company).
I think discord probably made some calculations on its own as opposed to pressure from Melvin/Point72. Though in this day and age it seems that the truth ends up being stranger than fiction.
- thomasz 6y ago> By that logic every company in the valley could be heavily influenced to shutdown products for different people if it as any connection to a VC (which is pretty much every company). Well, yes...?
- AndrewBissell 6y agoLove how often these comments just boil down to straight denial. "This couldn't possibly be happening!"
- thatguy0900 6y agoExactly. These companies are losing literal billions. Actual wars in real life have been fought over less. Yet they couldn't possibly be exerting any influence over the companies they own. That would be illegal.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoAnd they would surely be caught and word would get out if they did do it.
- thatguy0900 6y agoAnd then what? Will they be fined even half of what they stand to lose? Or be fined a "record-breaking" 5 million
- pepperonipizza 6y agoSurprise also how much conspiracy is being upvoted here.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI think you've gotta take selection effects into account. The deep comments section of the Nth Robinhood/Gamestop post is going to be disproportionately full of people who are unhappy with Robinhood and willing to believe lots of nasty things about them.
- boringg 6y agoWhich then has a spiraling effect in that other disaffected people will read those comments and believe what they want to believe. Similar to the conspiracy theories in the election. However I do think there has been some super shady stuff done with robinhood that doesn't take that much to believe that there is a conspiracy/collusion is at play. It's hard to believe that they are altruistically de-risking their clients when they sell doge coin.
- loveistheanswer 6y agoWell, we are discussing market manipulation. Which can be considered a conspiracy crime, right?