IBMers Question IBM's Decision to Send Money to "Chinese Military Companies" in Spite of US Sanctions
Notice of Availability of Designation of Chinese Military Companies: (2025)
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The "'rules' only apply to little people or disposables," one commenter has said, "please get back to work and make us more profit"...
The list above is new, but the controversy is not. Some people bring this up now, knowing that IBM's CEO came from Asia and people who worked for IBM go work for China after IBM (new high-profile example [1, 2]). We're not saying it's immoral, it's just that some people consider it illegal or at least evidence of IBM flouting rules. See below (that site deletes many comments, sometimes based on "racism" even when it clearly isn't). █
