Larry, as far as the same standards applying in either direction, just take a look at some of the bashing posters on Yahoo who, on a daily basis, keep saying that Valence has no production, still no product, etc. They state this as though they knew it to be a fact, even though Valence has by now collected some millions in revenues which I suspect wasn't paid by OEM's for vaporware.
If Don W. had said "I know", it would tend to imply that he really knew, but he said "we know". Who's "we"? The term "we" implies us, the shareholders, and for most of us puts it in the context I explained earlier.
As for making a SEC case out of the bashing or hyping, I'm not aware of anybody actually pursuing anything along those lines, despite the bluster we see every day. So far the only incident I can recall that in my view may actually provide grounds for such a case is the repeated statement by one infamous poster that VLNC is a "stock fraud". But then I'm no lawyer.
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