It is controversial if you are a free market supremacist like myself and believe that the market should be setting any and all prices. Removing market inefficiencies is what capitalism is all about and preventing the trading of pre-IPO shares seems like a very glaring inefficiency for setting the actual price of Linear.
I never said anything about preventing the trading. I said Carta should not steal information to set the price. Even a free market supremacist should understand the moral hazard of using stolen information to set prices.