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Investors in two major U.S. Internet Service Providers – CenturyTel, Inc. and EarthLink, Inc. – voted in substantial numbers in favor of a first-time shareholder resolution that highlighted the importance of Internet management practices and their impact on Internet privacy and freedom of expression.
The resolutions, which were filed and voted on for the first time this year, attracted 30.49% of the vote at CenturyTel and 9.25% at EarthLink. Taken together, the votes mean that investors controlling stock worth more than $900 million voted in favor of the resolutions at the two companies.
A third Internet Service Provider, Knology, Inc., has agreed that it will revise its Internet privacy policy, following the filing of a shareholder resolution. As a result of the agreement, the shareholder resolution has been withdrawn.
The Open MIC Internet Project is “the biggest new campaign in the human rights arena for the 2009 U.S. proxy season,” according to a new report by RiskMetrics, the nation’s largest and most influential proxy advisory firm.
Members of a coalition of investors have filed shareholder resolutions with 10 publicly-held U.S. providers of Internet access, urging corporate boards to report on the impact of the companies’ Internet network management practices on public expectations of freedom of expression and privacy. The investor coalition includes the New York City Pension Funds and leading socially responsible investment firms Trillium Asset Management Corp., Boston Common Asset Management, Calvert Asset Management Company, Domini Social Investments, Harrington Investments and the As You Sow Foundation.