Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
Chunk: 87

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 87
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 regarding the $1 million in Big Tech lobbying against the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and the New York Child Data Protection Act. 4 Google has also lobbied against child safety related legislation in Australia, the United Kingdom and the European Union (amid accusation of illegal lobbying through front groups). 5 Alphabet has several child safety policies and commitments as stated in its Terms of Service, Transparency Reports, Google and You Tube Community Guidelines, Child Safety page, Privacy Page and its 2024 Proxy. Yet, the Company’s lobbying policy appears to be significantly misaligned with its child safety commitments. RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board of Directors analyze and report to shareholders (at reasonable cost and omitting confidential information) on whether and how Alphabet is aligning its lobbying and policy influence activities and positions, both direct and indirect (through trade associations, coalitions, alliances, and other organizations) with its child safety polices and commitments, including the activities and positions analyzed, the criteria used to assess alignment, and involvement of stakeholders, if any, in its analytical process. In evaluating the degree of alignment between its child safety policies and its lobbying, Alphabet should consider not only its policy positions and those of organizations of which it is a member but also the actual lobbying activities, such as legislative comment submissions.

| (1) | https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/meta-google-lobbying-child-online-safety-bill-5ee63dcc                   |
| (2) | https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/alphabet-inc/lobbying?id=D000067823                                         |
| (3) | https://www.newsweek.com/when-protecting-kids-online-dont-let-apple-google-off-hook-opinion-1850897          |
| (4) | https://nypost.com/2024/05/20/business/meta-google-leading-nearly-1m-lobbying-fight-to-kill-ny-online-child- 
 safety-bills/                                                                                                |
| (5) | https://www.politico.eu/article/big-tech-companies-face-potential-eu-lobbying-ban/                           |

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Alphabet Opposing Statement

| Our Board of Directors recommends a vote AGAINST the stockholder proposal because: