Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 of our key principles in serving our users: “Google is committed to advancing privacy and freedom of expression for our users around the world.” Our Code of Conduct also prohibits discrimination in the workplace, including on the basis of personal beliefs and viewpoints, so that all our employees can be free from harassment, intimidation, bias, and unlawful discrimination. We ensure that individuals are treated respectfully, fairly, and compassionately in all aspects of the company’s interactions and apply policies, procedures, and outcomes consistently regardless of who is involved. Given all of this, our Board believes that the additional report requested by this proposal is not necessary and would not provide additional useful information to our stockholders. Alphabet2025 Proxy Statement 70

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Required Vote Approval of the stockholder proposal requires the affirmative FOR vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of Alphabet’s shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class. Unless marked to the contrary, proxies received will be voted AGAINST the stockholder proposal. Alphabet Recommendation

| OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE AGAINST THE STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL. |

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Proposal Number 6:
Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Request to Cease CEI Participation The National Center for Public Policy Research has advised us that it intends to submit the following proposal for consideration at the Annual Meeting. Request to Cease CEI Participation Supporting Statement: Google received a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI), 1which can only be attained by abiding by its hyper-partisan, divisive and increasingly radical criteria. 2 Though HRC claims that the CEI is just a “benchmarking tool on corporate policies... pertinent to LGBTQ employees,” 3in reality, it functions like a social credit score for corporations. The threat of a bad score is wielded by HRC against corporations to force them to do the political bidding of radical activists, which seek to sow gender confusion in youth, encourage permanent surgical procedures on confused and vulnerable teens, and