Reply #19: This is nothing short of McCarthyism

[Jim Lane]

You can go to Wikipedia and read the whole history of the dispute about the naked short selling article. It's an extraordinarily transparent decision-making process.

Instead of pointing to any actual malfeasance by anyone, you say that there's a regulation that applies to some people in the options field, that some of those people allowed their position to be used in a way that you dislike (although you don't say it violated the law), and then -- here's the clincher -- two members of the Wikimedia board used to work in the options field.

Let me guess what's coming next: "I have in my hand a list of 52 known options traders who have edited Wikipedia...."