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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: 2, Offtopic) by Bot on Friday December 30 2016, @01:23PM
The Nobel peace prize and POTUS Obama, after pissing off Israel by retiring a support that had lasted for his 8 years of tenure, goes to piss off Russia.
The stated reason for diplomatic war with Russia is a supposed hacking of the election. If that were true, President Obama should go to the proper authorities with the collected proof. This is not the case. This is the behavior of a sociopath or a child.
It appears the US is in the wrong hands no matter who won. I mean, making czar Putin look good in comparison is quite an accomplishment.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @05:04PM
President Obama should go to the proper authorities with the collected proof.
And, pray tell, who would that be? (please make it be the UN, please make it be the UN, please make it be the UN, ...)
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