Google Shareholder Joins Outcry Over Potential China Censorship
- Proposed resolution warns of ‘significant risk’ from Dragonfly
- CEO has said no plans ‘right now’ for China search product
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Google’s exploratory work on a censored Chinese search engine, which last year sparked employee protests and questions in the U.S. Congress, is stoking shareholder activism.
Azzad Asset Management, an investment firm that follows halal, or religiously approved Islamic guidelines, submitted a shareholder resolution to Google parent Alphabet Inc. saying the company "could enable censorship and potentially dangerous surveillance of citizens” by the Chinese government.