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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We are proud that our products already offer many safeguards advocated for in proposed legislation such as KOSA, including content protections and digital wellbeing tools for minors, as well as prohibiting personalized advertising to minors. We support many bipartisan bills We actively engage with federal and state lawmakers and independent experts, and in 2024 we supported several bipartisan bills, including the Invest in Child Safety Act, the Project Safe Childhood Act, the REPORT Act, the SHIELD Act, and the STOP CSAM Act. We are committed to working constructively with lawmakers to make sure online safety legislation appropriately balances child privacy and safety with the rights of children to learn and explore online. 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 92

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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 
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Proposal Number 14: Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Report on Online Safety for Children Boston Common Asset Management on behalf of the Boston Common ESG Impact US Equity Fund, as lead filer, along with other co-filers, whose names, addresses, and stockholdings will be provided by us upon request, have advised us that they intend to submit the following proposal for consideration at the Annual Meeting. Social media impacts children’s brains differently than adult brains. 1It poses physical and psychological risks that children and teens are unprepared for, including sextortion, grooming, hate group recruitment, human trafficking, cyberbullying, harassment, invasion of privacy, financial scams, and exposure to sexual, violent or self-harm content, among others. Alphabet/YouTube face significant regulatory, reputational