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If the stock doesn't rebound that might just be it. It's what ~4b lost so far? I'm sure the main shareholders wont be too happy to find out they could have stop

• webkike 5y ago
  I’m not really convinced that the market value lost by Spotify has anything to do Neil Young. It’s much more likely that it’s just general market trends - the same thing has been happening to most tech stocks over the last couple of weeks
• joshuaheard 5y ago
  The stock price has been trending down for the last month, along with the rest of the market. I don't think this issue has had much of an impact. It's ironic that these Sixties artists who sang about freedom from "the man" are now trying to force a giant corporation to censor another artist.
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > It's ironic that these Sixties artists who sang about freedom from "the man" are now trying to force a giant corporation to censor another artist. It would be ironic if artist- and artist-backed-consumer boycotts against giant corporations over actions including political messaging and associations weren't as much a part of the strategy of those same people in the 1960s and the rest of the intervening years as it is today.
    • choko 5y ago
      Exactly. Those artists have been in favor of free speech only as far as it suits their own agenda. Not much has changed.
      • dragonwriter 5y ago
        “Free speech” means that speech competes for support by private parties, not that private parties are obligates to blindly relay it.