I'm a shareholder, and you just stated the most moronic thing I've ever read on HN. No, we don't condone illegal activities. Putting your money into an operation that acts criminally doesn't get you good returns. Funny how you love to speculate though.
Which is why you really mean you were a shareholder until this issue started coming about around 2007-2008, right?
> Putting your money into an operation that acts criminally doesn't get you good returns.
Not if you can just sue the operation when it gets busted anyway.
Call me cynical but I see this as just another way to get some money out of google. If the plaintiffs donate the proceeds (if successful) to charity I'll change my mind.
After all, they're asking for cash: "The lawsuits demanded that the directors and executives make good the $500 million, and be required to pay damages to be decided by a jury to "punish defendants and to make an example of defendants."
Not for some kind of ethical oversight or other real remedy as 'concerned shareholders' would.
Business as usual.
Do you continue to hold stock in this company that has been convicted? (from your writing it seems that you do)
If so why?
Are you a part of the lawsuit?
What are you going to do with the proceeds?
Likewise.
You can't continue to hold google stock today while at the same time railing against their ethics and suing them.
That's a ridiculous position.
PG & AirBnB have nothing to do with that.
I won't call it "cynical". I'll call it "business."