They always protect their paper players from the bullion banks.
IMHO – their problem is not in the futures market, it’s in SLV. So I guess we can expect the brokerages to limit the buys in SLV and some of the mining shares associated with silver.
Just hope the WSB/Reddit guys and Hedge Funds keep plowing into the SLV ETF to wipe out both SLV and the paper markets.