Google shareholder joins outcry over potential China censorship

FILE PHOTO: Google's booth is pictured at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2017 in Beijing, China April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo

Google’s exploratory work on a censored Chinese search engine, which last year sparked employee protests and questions in the US Congress, is stoking shareholder activism. 

Azzad Asset Management, an investment firm that follows halal, or religiously approved Islamic guidelines, submitted a shareholder resolution to Google parent Alphabet Inc saying the company “could enable censorship and potentially dangerous surveillance of citizens” by the Chinese government.