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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: 3, Insightful) by oregonjohn on Friday December 30 2016, @08:35AM
Nice, you are already preparing your excuses if he fails, "He didn't get 99% approval so no wonder he couldn't do what he said he would do!" If the bombs fall here during his presidency I'm sure you will blame Obama somehow, or maybe me for caring about greed enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:10AM
I don't know, from what I'm seeing, I'm starting to believe the "stabbed in the back by the left" rumors of WW1.
"The right Not to Work" sounds like typical far left call, which always makes things worst for everyone.
IBM can:
1. Replace them all with people willing to work.
2. Start a shell subsidiary.
3. Lose the contract to another willing to work for it.
None of which changes anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @11:30AM
This IBM "software to track X" has nothing to do with the mentality that is being promoted here, that mentality of non-cooperation. So when Trump asks someone to do something, they go "but its fashionable to disagree with Trump. Big companies refuse to make software for him. Facebook even called him XYZ" and do nothing. This is far more dangerous than not making software to make list of "persons X".
The game indeed runs deep. It is quite cunning, actually.
It is also possible that Trump is smarter than these "enemies of humanity" and is playing with them. He may not even believe in a registry of "persons X", but is finding out who the enemies are ... luring them out of the woods.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Friday December 30 2016, @01:03PM
It is also possible that Trump is smarter than these "enemies of humanity" and is playing with them. He may not even believe in a registry of "persons X", but is finding out who the enemies are ... luring them out of the woods.
Jesus you are fucking desperate to suck on Trump's cock.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 30 2016, @08:27PM
The game indeed runs deep. It is quite cunning, actually.
Cunning like water flowing downhill. How do you think people who want to resist Trump's agenda are supposed to act?