I find the notion of shortselling rather distasteful because influential shortsellers can, at a whim, decide if a struggling company is going to fail or not, simply by shorting its stock. Images of vultures comes to mind. The hive mind can overwhelm institutionalised questionable practices like this. They need to get used to it. This is a new form of regulation they are probably going to have to adapt to. I remember Elon Musk going off his head because some were trying to short Tesla a couple years ago. It can be used as a tactical maneuver, which just stinks.