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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by wool_gather on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:00PM (#17790008)
Profit is not the same thing as share value.

> they can sue

Not, as far as I know, with any likelihood of success, no. There's a doctrine called the "Business Judgement Rule", which says that -- generally speaking -- boards/officers are not liable for bad stuff happening to the company as long as they act in good faith, without conflict of interest, and using their honest judgement of what is best for the company -- which doesn't mean the shareholders.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by quadrangle on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:45PM (#17790561)
If they sacrifice what is "best for the company" in order to do better for the world, they can be accused by investors as not acting in good faith on the premise of pursuing business success etc.
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