Google shareholders say "Go right ahead, be evil."
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Google shareholders say "Go right ahead, be evil."
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#2Damn, it is scary that they didn't accept those obvious guidelines. Google is being evil after all - not a good thing for those fighting for freedom in unfree countries where Google operates. Hopefully this breach will generate enough bad publicity for Google that they will reconsider.
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#3Damn, it is scary that they didn't accept those obvious guidelines. Google is being evil after all - not a good thing for those fighting for freedom in unfree countries where Google operates. Hopefully this breach will generate enough bad publicity for Google that they will reconsider.
In which countries do you think that would have allowed them to operate?
Unfortunately, all countries have problems and this isn't as black and white as the link seems to imply.
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#4http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/dumbgroups2.jpg
Sersiouly though, it's a complicated issue and the suggestion to reject the proposal may simply be because it needs revision.
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#5Google is has always will be evil
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#6What happened here?
"Schmidt and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin together hold 66.2 percent of Google's total shareholder voting power, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. All three are members of the board of directors, which has recommended that shareholders vote against the proposal at the company's annual meeting on May 10."
Re: Google shareholders say "Go right ahead, be evil."
#7Damn, it is scary that they didn't accept those obvious guidelines. Google is being evil after all - not a good thing for those fighting for freedom in unfree countries where Google operates. Hopefully this breach will generate enough bad publicity for Google that they will reconsider.
In which countries do you think that would have allowed them to operate? Unfortunately, all countries have problems and this isn't as black and white as the link seems to imply.
How can they justify operating in a country like China where their technology is used directly to target political activists? I see no possible excuse for this. They are providing the most efficient and effective censorship and political targeting software ever created.
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#8If I were Larry/Sergei/Schmidt, I'd vote against it too, just because I get annoyed when random shareholders try to tell me what to do with my company. When I first read this in a different context, it was worded so that the shareholders who weren't otherwise involved in the company brought up this proposal to force the company to do this stuff. IMO, even if I were going to follow the general intent of the proposal, I wouldn't want these random people who bought a bunch of stock to start snooping over my shoulder all the time.
Furthermore, the measure seems likely to prevent the governments of said countries from allowing Google into them at all. It is debatable whether having a censored Google or no Google is better for oppressed peoples.
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#9http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/dumbgroups2.jpg Sersiouly though, it's a complicated issue and the suggestion to reject the proposal may simply be because it needs revision.
If that were the case, why didn't they mention that, in principle, the proposal was good but needed to be revised which is why they recommended voting it down in its current form?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
In which countries do you think that would have allowed them to operate? Unfortunately, all countries have problems and this isn't as black and white as the link seems to imply.
How can they justify operating in a country like China where their technology is used directly to target political activists? I see no possible excuse for this. They are providing the most efficient and effective censorship and political targeting software ever created.
And you think that none of that is going on in the United States or other western countries? Should Google refuse to operate in the US because some of our laws are bad?