Social Media Campaign Resources
Open MIC is asking for your support in amplifying our campaign on social media. Please share the messages below through your social media accounts.
Ahead of the company’s annual meeting on June 3, Azzad Asset Management and other investors in Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, have filed a shareholder proposal seeking details on what content the company removes in response to government requests. Shareholders are concerned that content takedown practices between Google and governments threaten the right to freedom of expression and put the company in a position of censoring customers around the globe.
In addition to Google’s established, regular disclosures of the number and percentage of government requests the company accommodates, shareholders are asking the company’s Board of Directors to consider disclosing more specific data in its transparency report, including: “by jurisdiction, the list of delisted, censored, downgraded, proactively penalized, or blacklisted terms, queries or sites that the company implements in response to government requests.” The proposal was filed by Azzad Asset Management, an investment firm with a commitment to social responsibility, with support from Open MIC.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Open MIC at media@openmic.org.
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#Google is violating its own AI Principles by openly complying with government censorship requests and by keeping the content of those government requests secret. Shareholders demand transparency: https://www.openmic.org/news/alphabet-censorship #TransparencyReport
Tech companies are complicit in censoring the internet. Join shareholders in pressuring @Google to release a full scope of information on government censorship requests around the world. https://www.openmic.org/news/alphabet-censorship #TransparencyReport
Shareholders want @Google to be a more responsible content mediator, and a big part of that is disclosing how they help abusive governments censor the internet. https://www.openmic.org/news/alphabet-censorship #TransparencyReport
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Please don’t forget to tag @openmicmedia and include the hashtag #TransparencyReport
