IBM employees questioned the company’s ties to the Israeli military. CEO Arvind Krishna’s answer raised even more concerns.
  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    Tbh, given how out of their way IBM went to enable the holocaust, I don’t think they really should be weighing in on this one

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    171·
    2 months ago

    This is extremely similar to Elon Musk’s “clarification” on what he means by free speech:

    • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Right, they saying “We are just following the law.” as if that was an apolitical statement. While they still get to choose whom laws to follow by deciding where to make business, which are political decisions.

      As you see with Twitter or starlink, they decided to be do business in Brazil, but when the country actually have laws against uncontrolled mass propaganda and hate speech, they are suddenly against the law, and do not try to stop or limit doing their business there, when they do not want or can’t abide by these laws.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        That was the point. He was defending his deleting posts and accounts at the behest of Turkey and India. Suddenly he had to come up with some reason why his claim of supposed free speech absolutism wasn’t all that absolute.

        • symthetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Ah, makes sense. I wonder how long he can slither around like this until it finally bites him hard.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    For many workers, the question of where IBM might draw the line with foreign governments is particularly fraught given the company’s grim track record of selling computers and services to both apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany.

  • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Arvind regularly makes it clear in meetings that he doesn’t give a flying flip what the employees think or feel and that he knows best. So this is not shocking. He’s made similar bootlicker comments before. I’m sort of surprised more of his terrible takes aren’t made public.

      • k_rol@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        The shareholders disagree seeing the stock prices… I do though, she was more human.

    • k_rol@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I can confirm the same as well. I left IBM in part because of him. The more he spoke, the less I felt like an IBMer.

      I’m surprised too that he has not gone viral yet on his takes.