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Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by sokoloff on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:41PM (#49735428)
What?! Publicly traded companies are not “legally bound to return growth in share price or dividends.”

There are plenty of companies who pay no dividends and have not returned growth in share price. They’re still operating and no one’s coming to throw the execs in jail.

On the off chance that there is such a law, please cite it.

Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by upboundspiral on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:18PM (#49735684)
Not a law perhaps, but an ingrained neoliberal philosophy that is pervasive in certain management cultures in the US definitely.
Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by dotancohen on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:00AM (#49737332)
Neoliberal philosophy is stable ground for a lawsuit?
Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by paganel on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:08AM (#49737818)
In a Gramscian understanding of the world it is, yes. Forget Gramsci, right now I'm finishing reading a book by Maurice Gauchet [1] (not a leftist by any means) whos's saying exactly that, i.e. that neo-liberalism is very much defined by its insistence on relying on " le juridique"

> Ce dérèglement se manifeste avant tout par la réduction de la démocratie à une logique juridique, le néolibéralisme ayant imposé une conception où le droit, érigé en garant exclusif de la liberté individuelle, relègue le politique à une fonction purement gestionnaire

automatically translated as

> This dysfunction manifests itself primarily through the reduction of democracy to a legalistic logic, as neoliberalism has imposed a conception in which the law—elevated to the status of exclusive guarantor of individual liberty—relegates the political realm to a purely managerial function.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Gauchet

Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by RugnirViking on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:22AM (#49737899)
so a sort of "the law says its okay so how dare you say its immoral. It's my right to do this" sort of thing?
Re:AWS Says It Can't Restore Some Data from Mideast Faciliti... by paganel on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:22AM (#49738280)
Yeah, that sort of thing, where the law sort of dictates the current morality based on the "morality" the of above mentioned neo-liberal order/current state of things.

Of course that all this is kind of circular, meaning the (neo-liberal) morality imposing itself via law on the current (and by now surpassed) morality, but that's how things usually go when it comes to societal theory.