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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by JPKab on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:20PM (#26757381)
My opinion matters to Spotify executives only so much as me being a paying customer of their platform. They are free to make whatever decisions they want, but are obligated by law to make decisions that benefit their investors. If you are a paying Spotify customer, then yes, your opinion matters to the executives.

Expressing my opinion on a message board isn't a claim that the executives should listen to me.

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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by kodah on Saturday April 10, 2021 @05:01AM (#26760064)
> They are free to make whatever decisions they want, but are obligated by law to make decisions that benefit their investors.

I'm unaware of any law which requires a business to make money for investors. A business can promise to pay dividends and they can speculate on where their stock can be at a future date, but there is no legal recourse if they lose money.

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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by yazaddaruvala on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:45PM (#26782553)
This might be useful:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-gover...

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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by finnthehuman on Saturday April 10, 2021 @11:53AM (#26762374)
It's a meme about the case Dodge vs Ford Motor, but all that case said was you can't actively screw your shareholders. Henry Ford had a cash surplus and was deliberately trying to avoid paying dividends to the Dodge brothers.
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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by kodah on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:54PM (#26763448)
Oh, yeah that makes sense. TIL
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