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Corporations Are Not People and They Care About No People Other Than Their Own Executives

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Summary: The Conservative media in the UK says that "almost half of Britons" are fed up with companies interjecting politics and posing as "Ethical" (based on mostly superficial issues)

THE video above deals with a rather controversial issue and it does not endorse this article, sent to us by someone earlier today. As I explain in the video, I don't choose where to buy my food based on race, gender, religion etc. (taking those things into consideration would arguably be racist, sexist and intolerant, respectively) because I treat shops as businesses, not as politicians.



"In the case of IBM, they speak about laughable nonsense like the supposed "ethics" of "hey hi"."There's this longstanding worry that companies try to distract from their own immorality (projection tactics) by poisoning otherwise-legitimate debates about business ethics/morality, warping such debates into less relevant ones that don't really concern the most heinous crimes of private corporations. We wrote about that in past years ("Let's Ban Bombings, Not Words (Corporations Taking Away People's Freedom of Speech So They Can Bomb 'in Peace'").

Little heavy bomber
Little heavy bomber is all fun and games



We keep seeing EPO management (both under Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos) weaponising such issues to distract from EPO crimes and corruption. As if to say, "sure we break the law but look at all this "green" stuff we do" (or merely speak about). While granting European software patents against the law, for example, they obsess about how patents help "hey hi" (AI) and other mindless buzzwords. In the case of IBM, they speak about laughable nonsense like the supposed "ethics" of "hey hi". IBM is the worst. It actually started doing this after it had been caught helping NYPD with racial profiling, opening an old jar of worms.

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