[nrmitchi]

Would you have preferred that if they were unable to take new buy orders, that they also prevented people who already owned from having the ability to sell it? While everyone else "sold ahead of them" and the users lost money "because Robinhood wouldn't let me sell"?

Robinhood may be able to control what happens on their own platform (typically heavily based on regulation), but that doesn't mean they can stop buy/sell activity on the whole market.