Alphabet is recommending shareholders also vote against that proposal, arguing that the existing policies and practices “adequately address the concerns” raised in the proposal.
Hannah Lucal, associate director at Open MIC, said the coverage of recent high profile Google dismissals, is just “the tip of the iceberg” and suggests there's “more institutional harm happening” that the public is unaware of.
“The proposal is saying, ‘can we have a third party, an independent party come in, and uncover the whole iceberg and understand and assess what is Google hiding? What is actually going on?’ Shareholders want to know, the public needs to know,” Lucal said.