Google Shareholder Proposal to Resist Censorship

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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Re:Maybe I can start to trust Google again?

[Aladrin]

There's apparently a law that prevents a company from doing things that will lose money for the stockholders. I'm not saying that it's the motivation here, but it could be a consideration. There is very little doubt about the monetary effect of being blocked in several countries.