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Hey, I hope you're doing okay in Ukraine! Usually it's business - not discrimination. Content is licensed by country, so the content owners (at least think) th

Hey, I hope you're doing okay in Ukraine! Usually it's business - not discrimination. Content is licensed by country, so the content owners (at least think) they can get more value elsewhere. In a way we should welcome this. We don't really want spotify to determine what content to distribute globally. Global platforms like Steam are aggressively discounted for Ukraine, so unfortunately Ukrainian audience members * Ukrainian market value is probably just not high enough.

k_bx 6y ago
It sounds like both. I obviously don’t think Spotify discriminate due to reasons other than business, I just think decisions like this should become less frequent. I think you are wrong with regards to “more value somewhere else”. I think the decision was made because they didn’t want to show the “podcasts” section until they can ensure the experience will be great and they have content moderation and such. So they did the simplest thing. But my point is that it does more harm than they realize, since their view of the world is too simplistic and non-globalised.