Well, except in the industry, front-running has a precise regulatory definition.
It doesn't help the conversation to start using the name of a crime to describe something that's legal but you don't like (even if you think it should be illegal, but agree it doesn't fit the legal definition of the named crime).
I don't like that back when rape and pillage on the high seas was a large threat, some copyright holders were able to convince people to start calling copyright infringement "piracy". I don't like our current tendency to over-label things as terrorism or exaggerate the role of narcotics smuggling in financing Islamic terrorism. I also don't like labeling reacting quickly to public information and reacting to expected orders as front-running. I think it's a cheap trick that harms the quality of the dialogue.
It doesn't help the conversation to start using the name of a crime to describe something that's legal but you don't like (even if you think it should be illegal, but agree it doesn't fit the legal definition of the named crime).
I don't like that back when rape and pillage on the high seas was a large threat, some copyright holders were able to convince people to start calling copyright infringement "piracy". I don't like our current tendency to over-label things as terrorism or exaggerate the role of narcotics smuggling in financing Islamic terrorism. I also don't like labeling reacting quickly to public information and reacting to expected orders as front-running. I think it's a cheap trick that harms the quality of the dialogue.