Oh, for the record: I agree with Musk re the SEC. They let professional short-sellers perform rampant stock market manipulation on a constant basis. Even worse, the SEC ignores how large financial companies regularly practice market manipulation with pump-and-dump schemes. The SEC never goes after them.
And yet they go after Musk for posting a couple of tweets (as I recall, it was two and not just one) because of the effect on the market.
Now, I'm not saying they should go after every Tom, Dick and Harry who short-sells TSLA and posts FUD to Seeking Alpha. Nobody would take seriously most of what's posted anonymously to an online forum, and certainly no sensible and reasonable person would take personal investment advice from a random anonymous internet post.
But when you have professional stock fund managers and "analysts" like Edward Niedermeyer, Mark B. Spiegel, and Jim Chanos, professionals who deliberately promote utterly and completely baseless smear campaigns intended to damage Tesla's reputation in an attempt to manipulate Tesla's stock price, then I think they should be every bit as subject to investigation and criminal charges by the SEC and/or the Justice Dept. as a CEO like Elon Musk. What they do is fraud, and it should be investigated and prosecuted just like any other fraud. I consider it a real injustice that they're not.
All just my opinion, of course.