Google Shareholder Proposal to Resist Censorship

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 30, 2007 @01:47AM from the vote-if-you-got-em dept.

buxton2k writes "Slashdot has had plenty of stories about technology companies like Google kowtowing to repressive political regimes such as China's. I'm an (extremely) small shareholder in Google, and I looked at their proxy statement today. Most of the time, shareholders' meetings don't deal with anything other than rubber-stamping the board of directors, but Google's upcoming meeting has a interesting shareholder proposal dealing with free speech and censorship to be voted on at the May 10 meeting."

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Note the Recommendation of the Board: Against by mattaw · 2007-04-30 01:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

So the "Do No Evil" actually lasted about 5 seconds into Google becoming a listed company. Oh well, that was quite long.
From p32: Recommendation Our board of directors recommends a vote AGAINST the stockholder proposal.
Capitalism == Situational Ethics....