Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search

Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by kortilla on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:17AM (#19308721)

No it doesn’t. There is no threat to google given that the majority voting control is held amongst the founders. Same for Facebook. There is no risk of a hostile takeover or being voted out by public shareholders.

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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by scarmig on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @03:11AM (#19308992)

Shareholders have plenty of ways of impacting corporate direction that fall far short of hostile takeovers. E.g. lawsuits; the very fact that a public company has to provide more information about its finances. There's a reason Ruth Porat was brought on after IPO and not before.

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Re:Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China S... by ionised on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:15AM (#19311500)

> So we should be blaming Brin and Page for this directly?

I'm totally fine with that.

I'd add Schmidt into the mix too. He's had the biggest had in turning Google into what it is.

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