What are the best methods of protecting the community from these campaigns?
Pump and dump happens every now and then with the smaller alts and tokens. When the market cap of Bitcoin was low, it used to happen with Bitcoin as well. I don't think that it is something harmful that needs to be stopped.
Agree with you boss, i don't think that this thing would need to be stopped because this is what is crypto is for and with this pump and dump scheme it makes cryptocurrency more interesting.