[ehaveman]

from the lewis article:

> the kid had bought stock and then, ''using multiple fictitious names,'' posted hundreds of messages on Yahoo Finance message boards recommending that stock to others

if that's not illegal it really should be.

[littlestymaar]

If A16Z are allowed to buy thousands of their own crypto-hype essay in order to get it listed on NYT best-seller and drive shitcoin prices up, I don't see why random netizens could not do the same kind of things…

Of course we could ban both.