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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by dastbe on Saturday June 10, 2017 @01:20PM (#14528175)
facebook class B shares (the ones that Zuckerberg and other company insiders own) has 10x the voting rights of class A shares which you or I can own. They plan to issue new class C stock that will have no voting rights. this is the same structure in place for alphabet.

So it's not nearly as simple as you make it sound.

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by jimmywanger on Saturday June 10, 2017 @01:30PM (#14528229)
You can still buy alphabet shares with voting rights, they trade at a ~3% premium. (GOOG vs GOOGL)

Facebook is a different case, but in the examples prominently mentioned in the article, Google and Amazon are featured and they both give voting rights to stockholders, as does Microsoft.

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