Manipulations in different class of trading asset like bitcoin can loud or subtle, the bottomline here is that market manipulation happen everywhere. It's hightime we start resisting people that demonize bitcoin. Many criminal activities were been carriedout by fiat not bitcoin!
I don't think tat the point is to demonize bitcoin but rather warn others that in the near future, the average Joe won't be able to make money from trading cryptos. We gave that right to the banks and the corporate moguls.