IBM Sues Microsoft's New Chief Diversity Officer To Protect Diversity Trade Secrets (geekwire.com)

theodp writes: GeekWire reports that IBM has filed suit against longtime exec Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, alleging that her new position as Microsoft's chief diversity officer violates a year-long non-compete agreement, allowing Microsoft to use IBM's internal secrets to boost its own diversity efforts. A hearing is set for Feb. 22, but in the meantime, a U.S. District Judge has temporarily barred McIntyre from working at Microsoft. "IBM has gone to great lengths to safeguard as secret the confidential information that McIntyre possesses," Big Blue explained in a court filing, citing its repeated success (in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017) in getting the U.S. government to quash FOIA requests for IBM's EEO-1 Reports on the grounds that the mandatory race/ethnicity and gender filings represent "confidential proprietary trade secret information." IBM's argument may raise some eyebrows, considering that other tech giants -- including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook -- voluntarily disclosed their EEO-1s years ago after coming under pressure from Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus. In 2010, IBM stopped disclosing U.S. headcount data in its annual report as it accelerated overseas hiring.

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Oh good, it's the 2 minute hate

[Macthorpe]

I cannot wait for the Slashdot comments on this one - I wonder how long it'll be until some AC says that they're sending in the lawyers because all diversity efforts are anti-white propaganda paid for by George Soros and they don't want the normies to find out.

They are Chinese political officers

[Anonymous Coward]

Back in medieval times, Chinese warships would have a political officer on board to enforce the ideals of the current king. That lasted until one king decided to get rid of all of China's ships and books which set the whole society back hundreds of years.

In more modern times Chinese governmental organizations have been assigned political commissars to enforce the ideals of the party in power. As before, their job is not law enforcement but idea enforcement.

These Diversity Officers are no different. Their only purpose is to enforce the political objectives of the Communist Party of China by firing any American employee who is opposed to Chinese interests, starting with whoever objects to Maoist slogans and peer pressure.

The presence of a Diversity Officer means that a company is controlled by the Chinese government. That is what they are for.