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Censorship of Information Unflattering to IBM (or GAFAM)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 29, 2026,
updated May 29, 2026

As noted this morning or mentioned 2 hours ago:

When you post here, on Glassdoor or on any other social media, you can bet that HR is reading it cause it’s their job to read anything written about 3M, but they lack the power to remove these posts since they don't own or control these platforms.

Social control media is about control and some online forums, which are basically social control media in disguise, are also about social control through propaganda and censorship. Those platforms do not exist to expose or discuss misconduct but to selectively capture what people say then monetise it somehow (to leverage things for commercial gain). We saw it this earlier month in GitHub (social control media of Microsoft) because a person was terminated for embarrassing Microsoft.

Years ago we gave a platform to a censored Microsoft whistleblower; he truly scared the top-level management and Microsoft was pressuring Medium to delete his articles; and that sometimes worked. But our copies of those articles are still online.

Recently, many people recognised that Beehiiv and Substack have the same problems. If you want to blow the whistle on IBM and want the platform not to be easily bullied by IBM HR/PR/lawyers/legal team, contact us (can encrypt!) and if using a burner account, then please refrain from threats to kill (we already have a "fast lane" to complain about these because we shared strong evidence of ongoing threats). Those are connected to Red Hat (now IBM) on several levels because of Elana Hamasman and her friend Garrett.

Apropos IBM trouble, people are leaving today (Friday, end of week):

Last working day vibes

But yeah, IBM is doing just fine...

Affirming what IBM insiders said about Talent Acquisition just earlier this week:

I started in July 2022 as a Talent Acquisition Partner.

IBM is not doing OK. It's doing OK at hiding the mass layoffs.

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