If the response to the short squeezes on $GME and $AMC is to shut down the trading platforms and stop trading on those stocks, there is no free market. These hedge funds were parasites profiting on people's misfortune, the short squeeze is a free market response saying "Stop it."

Hedge funds like Melvin played the game and lost. If they're allowed to take the ball (not their ball) and go home, the game is broken.

This was bound to happen sooner or later. The response should be hedge funds stop massively shorting stocks and then driving FUD through media.

These hedge fund managers and their traders are on financial channels and social media *all the time* dumping on the stocks they've shorted. Most famously with Tesla. They must be allowed to lose for the free market to function properly.