{"id":113236,"date":"2019-03-02T00:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/apples-shareholders-skirmish-over-ideological-differences\/"},"modified":"2019-03-02T00:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:49:23","slug":"apples-shareholders-skirmish-over-ideological-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/apples-shareholders-skirmish-over-ideological-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s shareholders skirmish over ideological differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- font size selector, BEGIN --><br \/>\n\t\t<span class=\"cfix\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gray small byline\">\n\t\t\tBy <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#e391858a8d848290a3848e828a8fcd808c8e\">Roger Fingas<\/a>\t\t\t<br \/><span class=\"gray\">Friday, March 01, 2019, 11:12 am PT (02:12 pm ET)<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<span><span class=\"article-leader\">Apple on Friday held its annual shareholders meeting, where a proposal to mandate Apple execs detail their political leanings was profoundly defeated.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/v9\/images\/1x1-white.jpg\" alt=\"Apple at 2018 San Francisco Pride\" height=\"495\" class=\"lazy\" data-original=\"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/29949-48788-lgbt-apple-pride2018-l.jpg\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos5.appleinsider.com\/gallery\/29949-48788-lgbt-apple-pride2018-l.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>One shareholder measure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iansherr\/status\/1101528069049769984\">called<\/a> for more &#8220;ideological diversity&#8221; on the board of directors, according to <em>CNet<\/em>&#8216;s Ian Sherr. Apple is a famously liberal-leaning company, if mostly on social issues. The company was one of the first to extend equal benefits to same-sex couples, and in recent years has taken a vocal stance <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/11\/02\/apple-other-tech-giants-sign-letter-opposing-trump-administrations-attempt-to-define-gender\">in support of LGBT rights<\/a>. It has also been aggressive about environmental issues, for example <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/07\/12\/apple-launches-300m-fund-to-power-chinese-supply-chain-with-clean-energy\">investing cash in renewable energy<\/a>, and in increasing the racial and gender diversity of its hires.<\/p>\n<p>The combination has upset some people with conservative religious views, climate change deniers, and\/or those who feel that Apple should sidestep politics and concentrate on profits.<\/p>\n<p>One person at the meeting complained about Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/08\/16\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-addresses-charlottesville-company-to-donate-2m-to-fight-hate\">$1 million donation<\/a> to the Southern Poverty Law Center in the aftermath of violence at a Charlottesville white supremacist rally. The person referred to the SPLC as a hate group, presumably referring to the SPLC&#8217;s own labeling of certain conservative organizations as hate groups for their stances on things like Islam or the gay community.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;ideological diversity&#8221; measure was soundly defeated at today&#8217;s meeting, however, garnering just 1.7 percent of the vote. Apple CEO Tim Cook later commented on the matter, saying that the world doesn&#8217;t need to be so polarized and that his company doesn&#8217;t &#8220;check people at the door&#8221; for their beliefs. It also doesn&#8217;t donate to political campaigns or run a political action committee (PAC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us, we focus on policy things,&#8221; he said, adding that while Apple is &#8220;pro-environment, pro-immigration, capitalist, and strong believers in privacy,&#8221; it doesn&#8217;t consider those &#8220;political things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On privacy Cook said that profiles of people are offensive to him and causing greater issues in society. &#8220;We think regulation is necessary,&#8221; he remarked. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to a tangential question, senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said that new functionality is coming to USB-C video output on the iPad Pro. No more details were made public.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n\t\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t\t\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\t\t\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\t\t\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n\t\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\tfbq('init', '303691330110002');\n\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\t<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/03\/01\/apples-shareholders-skirmish-over-idealogical-differences\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u00a0 By Roger Fingas Friday, March 01, 2019, 11:12 am PT (02:12 pm ET) Apple on Friday held its annual shareholders meeting, where a proposal to mandate Apple execs detail their political leanings was profoundly defeated. One shareholder measure called for more &#8220;ideological diversity&#8221; on the board of directors, according to CNet&#8216;s Ian Sherr. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}