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- The conditions described are also prevalent throughout the sprawling Chinese infrastructure designed to provide componenets for the "green" energy demands of the West. From the mining of rare earth metals and mercury to support wind turbine production and fluorescent bulbs, to the carbon-arc furnaces that distill the silica needed for solar panels, our environmental conciousness is laying waste to vast landscapes across China. The London Times presented a glimpse into this problem in 2009 - but the relative silence about the issue indicates that China is not the only government that tightly controls unacceptable communication.
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- CBS-- Why don't you have the balls to just come out and say that Foxconn is a slave labor outfit???
You no longer have any credibility as a news organization!!! - Reply to this comment
- You can't have it both ways--unless you're willing to pay more for your electronic toys. Apple, Microsoft and the others can't provide you cheap electronics employing Americans with their constant demand for higher wages and more benefits.
Should we do something to end the atrocities in Chinese factories? Of course we should. But when prices go up, I'll bet you're going to be the first to complain. - Reply to this comment
- Welcome to the new age slavery ...
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- I like how the big guys are shot at most.
while I am not in favor of much of how Foxconn et al treat employees...
Remember HP? yeah... Hewlitt-Packard.. those guys.
The ones that do just as much business with Foxxconn as Apple does.
That Amazon Kindle you are reading this one? yup. made there too.
That Xbox,Playstation and Wii you bought the kids for Christmas? yup. made there too.
and just about every cell phone out there, not just iPhones are made there too. - Reply to this comment
- The hatchet job on Apple/Foxconn was offensive. I stopped watching "60 Minutes" because it was eventually taken over by this kind of biased one-sided stories. I have greatly enjoyed 'Sunday Morning' for many years. Please don't turn into another '60 Minutes'.
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- these r reasons i work at home
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- The employees of Foxconn can choose to quit and that is the only thing that can change the fate of people like that. No amount of voices in the world can change the plight of these people until they stop embracing that "plight".
Apple cannot change anything. Apple has to go to China to keep their profits up. And as long as the Chinese are willing to work 20 hour shifts, that is what we will see. - Reply to this comment
- So what we have here is an expose on the abuses of labor in the electronics industry in which the major source of information is a Broadway actor who was too fat to get a part that might require standing up, and the entire blame for what's wrong with that industry is placed at the feet of a dead man.
Instead of wasting time asking Sergey Brin, Michael Dell, or the CEO's of Toshiba and Sony about their part in these abuses, and in that spirit of her work here, I suggest Martha Teichner should next interview Walter Cronkite about how it's his fault that this kind of garbage now passes for "news" on CBS. - Reply to this comment
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