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Google Shareholders Reject Censorship Proposal

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the keeping-it-real dept.

prostoalex writes "At the annual shareholder meeting, Google put forth for voting a proposal for the company not to engage in self-censorship, resist by all legal means the demands to censor information, inform the user in case their information was provided to the government, and generally not to store sensitive user data in the countries with below average free speech policies. As this proposal, if passed, would effectively mean the end of Google's China operations, the shareholders rejected the document at the recommendation of the Board of Directors."

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  1. Censored post by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    This post has been censored by Slashdot for crimes against groupthink but is available for viewing in the google cache.

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  2. Oh well. by tygerstripes · · Score: 2, Funny
    So, as common sense would suggest Doing No Evil can be a vague condition of employment, not of share ownership.

    Maybe it was the employees who tipped the vote, thereby exercising their latent evilness in the only free arena they have - stock options!

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  3. Re:I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This IS China we are talking about, not the US where most corporations are held just as liable as paris hilton and can buy the legislature.

  4. Re:Screw the Chinese by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    I will bear this in mind when you get taken for an extended waterboarding vacation in Gitmo.

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  5. Re:And there you have it by drgonzo59 · · Score: 2, Funny
    GOOGLE: "Do No Evil. Ever!" *(see note below).

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    *NOTE: Except when in conflict with making more money. Otherwise, yeah...whatever, we'll do no evil...