<story><title>Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tharne</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know why people keep expressing surprise at things like this.&lt;p&gt;Contrary to what the U.S. Supreme Court would have you believe, corporations are not people and do not have morals or values. They are organizations that seek to maximize profit and grow.&lt;p&gt;Any values a corporation projects are merely reflections of whatever the dominant moral force is in a given time and place.&lt;p&gt;American corporations in the U.S. in 2022 project values of wokeness because the woke left is presently the dominant cultural force in the U.S. In 1950&amp;#x27;s America, the dominant cultural force was cultural conservatism and patriotism so naturally corporations projected conservative and patriotic values. So it shouldn&amp;#x27;t surprise anyone that a large corporation operating in China in 2022 will reflect the values of the CCP.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying this is a good thing, but expecting a corporation to have meaningful morals in the same way a human does is like expecting your dog to do the dishes. Based on what they are, they&amp;#x27;re simply not capable of the task.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>analyst74</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t the new wording more morally consistent?&lt;p&gt;It still means they are against slave labor, including those in Xinjiang, but not blindly banning anything from the region.</text></comment>