Comments on: Google to New York: Drop Dead http://www.lexferenda.com/30042007/google-to-new-york-drop-dead/ daithí mac síthigh, university of east anglia, norwich, england Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:01:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tom Young http://www.lexferenda.com/30042007/google-to-new-york-drop-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Tom Young Wed, 02 May 2007 16:17:53 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/wordpress/?p=290#comment-250 Perhaps a realisation that stock is overvalued. Perhaps a realisation that stock is overvalued.

]]> By: Daithí http://www.lexferenda.com/30042007/google-to-new-york-drop-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Daithí Wed, 02 May 2007 16:04:03 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/wordpress/?p=290#comment-249 More on the New York effort: <a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5798720?nclick_check=1" rel="nofollow">here</a>. More on the New York effort: here.

]]> By: Ross http://www.lexferenda.com/30042007/google-to-new-york-drop-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Ross Wed, 02 May 2007 15:27:55 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/wordpress/?p=290#comment-248 Just found this news article... The words Pot, Kettle and Black come to mind! “By seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for internet communications, Viacom’s complaint threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression,” said Google’s managing counsel for litigation Michael Kwun." http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8255 Just found this news article…
The words Pot, Kettle and Black come to mind!

“By seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for internet communications, Viacom’s complaint threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression,” said Google’s managing counsel for litigation Michael Kwun.”
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8255

]]> By: Daithí http://www.lexferenda.com/30042007/google-to-new-york-drop-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Daithí Tue, 01 May 2007 06:55:50 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/wordpress/?p=290#comment-247 Oh yes, you're absolutely right. And the attempt by the New York pension funds (probably a step above wacko, but you never know) is a bit cheeky, and has absolutely no chance of success! In this case, though, it's the only non-routine proposal that's on the floor for the entire meeting - so the least we'd expect is a bit of an explanation from the Googleplex - they have lots of blogs etc, why not meet this sort of thing head on and discuss, rather than burying the head in the sand and hoping it goes away? (We expect that sort of response from Exxon-Mobil to shareholder proposals, but...) It should also be recalled that Google did make quite a song and dance about how the people would own Google. Hardly a surprise when they try and do something about it. On the other hand, Yahoo! tried to get a similar resolution off the paper entirely. <a href="http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/press/2007_releases/pr07-04-044.shtm" rel="nofollow">More here</a>. It didn't work. Oh yes, you’re absolutely right. And the attempt by the New York pension funds (probably a step above wacko, but you never know) is a bit cheeky, and has absolutely no chance of success! In this case, though, it’s the only non-routine proposal that’s on the floor for the entire meeting – so the least we’d expect is a bit of an explanation from the Googleplex – they have lots of blogs etc, why not meet this sort of thing head on and discuss, rather than burying the head in the sand and hoping it goes away? (We expect that sort of response from Exxon-Mobil to shareholder proposals, but…)

It should also be recalled that Google did make quite a song and dance about how the people would own Google. Hardly a surprise when they try and do something about it.

On the other hand, Yahoo! tried to get a similar resolution off the paper entirely. More here. It didn’t work.

]]> By: Jordan Hatcher http://www.lexferenda.com/30042007/google-to-new-york-drop-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Jordan Hatcher Tue, 01 May 2007 01:23:42 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/wordpress/?p=290#comment-246 So my understanding is that just about ANYONE that holds stock can make proposals like this, and that any large publicly traded corporation gets many proposals -- some from complete wackos. So I'm not saying that this is one of them, or that privacy issues shouldn't be of concern to Google, but I wouldn't put too much emphasis on this procedure. See rule 14-a8 at http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/34ActRls/rule14a-8.html for a bit more of an explanation. I am also not too sure that placing restrictions in the "corporate charter" of Google is the best way to approach the problem, but as that leads into debates on "Corporate Social Responsibility", I'll leave my comment at that. So my understanding is that just about ANYONE that holds stock can make proposals like this, and that any large publicly traded corporation gets many proposals — some from complete wackos. So I’m not saying that this is one of them, or that privacy issues shouldn’t be of concern to Google, but I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on this procedure. See rule 14-a8 at http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/34ActRls/rule14a-8.html for a bit more of an explanation. I am also not too sure that placing restrictions in the “corporate charter” of Google is the best way to approach the problem, but as that leads into debates on “Corporate Social Responsibility”, I’ll leave my comment at that.

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