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Original URL: The Register
IBM staff have petitioned the company to – among other things – express concern that "IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's open letter to President-elect Donald Trump does not affirm IBMers' core values of diversity, inclusiveness, and ethical business conduct."
The petition's authors respect Rometty's "willingness to engage in constructive dialogue with the president-elect" but argue IBM's culture is essential "to our transformation underpinned by cloud and cognitive initiatives."
[...] There's also a call to "Respect our right to refuse participation in any U.S. contracts that violate constitutional and civil liberties" which sounds like an option to opt out of working on Trump's planned register of Muslims. Another demand wants IBM to "Prohibit perceived influence-peddling of elected officials by restricting IBM and its employees from using any Trump owned or Trump branded properties for business purposes, in accordance with the IBM Business Conduct Guidelines."
In part the petition reads:
We have a moral and business imperative to uphold the pillars of a free society by declining any projects which undermine liberty, such as surveillance tools threatening freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
[...] Taking a conservative approach has grave implications. Our own founder's experience and the rest of history teach us that accommodating those who unleash forces of aggressive nationalism, bigotry, racism, fear, and exclusion inevitably yields devastating outcomes for millions of innocents.
Full text: IBMers to CEO Ginni Rometty: Affirm IBM values!
(Score: 4, Informative) by edIII on Friday December 30 2016, @07:32AM
Unless.... it's the IRS. You're assumed to be guilty before innocent and must defend yourself after being deprived of the resources to do so.
Unless.... it's some fucking city that thinks it can levy unrecoverable "administration" fees even when you are innocent.
Your protestations are as pathetic as the U.S's track history with racism and bigotry, even excluding our current shift to a fully White Nationalist administration in the White House.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @08:04AM
Are we over 66 percent Republicans in the Senate/Legislature?
If so they could systematically oust any Democrats in either House just by putting it to a vote. Flipping the required number of Ds using blackmail or other incentives might work too. I am personally hope to see the full results of a single party government this coming 4-8 years (Or longer if either the 22nd gets repealed, or other legal changes are made.)
(Score: 1) by Arik on Friday December 30 2016, @11:13AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:17AM
> I am personally hope to see the full results of a single party government this coming 4-8 years [...]
Consider a visit to Cuba, the PRC or the DPRK.