Foxconn on Dateline 2121 Responses

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dbloc
ABC anchor Bill Weir of Nightline on Tuesday will take U.S. audiences inside China’s Foxconn Technology factories that have been closed off to the public for years and are the birth place of Apple products.
http://mashable.com/2012/02/20/n…
Feb 20, 12, 12:48 p.m. – Permalink
dbloc
sorry Nightline not Dateline
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 12:50 p.m. – Permalink
epic_rim
I'm sure it'll be hard hitting and ask the tough questions.
- +1– pillhead
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:05 p.m. – Permalink
Jacque
Funny how Apple seems to be the only company people are outraged at – or protest against – in relation to Foxconn even though Acer, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, and Vizio also employ Foxconn.
- good point, they are all to blame– eieio1/10
  apple's image is too good. it's like putting a baby in the same room with a pedobear. irresistible.– pango2/10
  People are outraged at Apple due to their business practices overall. Btw, You don't see Foxconn employees carrying Acer products stained in blood now do you? I guess they just don't get it, yah?– monolith3/10
  Acer products stained in blood now do you? I guess they just don't get it, yah?– monolith4/10
  Apple is the largest and most successful.– DrBombay5/10
  because other companies allow just a tad higher margin - read the NYT article about the issue– pr26/10
  wait! someone carried an apple product stained in blood? i gotta see that!– pango7/10
  i'm not saying it in a psychotic way....– pango8/10
  or some weird fetish... my doctor told me i'm fine...– pango9/10
  I also would like to see someone carrying around an iphone stained with blood.– Al_dizzle10/10
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:05 p.m. – Permalink
dbloc
suicide nets.
- problem solved....– pango1/5
  hahahahahahahahhaha– dopepope2/5
  hahahah @ pongo or whatever your fucking name is.– pillhead3/5
  ya i don't really know what my display name stand for. this is what i get when i googled my self. http://sphotos.ak.fb…– pango4/5
  and the fifth image.... http://floridaclubsk…– pango5/5
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:16 p.m. – Permalink
eieio
I heard they threatened a mass suicide.
- ...as it mentions in the article I just read after I posted that.– eieio
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:25 p.m. – Permalink
inteliboy
Isn't the ratio of suicides less then that of the states?
Also I guess Apple take the heat because they are the biggest, just like McDonalds with obese people or Nike with sweatshops.
- yes, it is.– Amicus
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:41 p.m. – Permalink
monNom
There was an article somewhere about how Foxconn had been using huge numbers of unpaid 'interns' sourced from nearby technical schools. Evidently they've got it rigged up so that if you wanted to graduate from these technical schools, you needed to do your stint of free labour at Foxconn, sort of like a practicum. However this applied to whole campuses, even if your field of study was nursing/food services and had nothing to do with electronics manufacturing.
- http://motherboard.v…– monNom1/2
  Shit man, I don't want a cook make my fucking iPad, FFS.– pillhead2/2
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:46 p.m. – Permalink
eieio
comparing a factory's suicide rate to an entire country doesn't seem appropriate. Are there any factories in the US that have this many suicides? What is Walmart's suicide rate? But really judging the quality conditions based on the suicide rate is really way off base, look at the numerous other factors in their working conditions, its a miserable place to be.
- they got a raise woo! but they still work 80 hours a week and live a box with 14 other people– eieio1/3
  Factory has high suicide rate, installs suicide nets, suicide rate drops, success!!!!– eieio2/3
  its a BETTER place to be now.– eieio3/3
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:47 p.m. – Permalink
monNom
Upton Sinclairs 'the jungle' springs to mind.
- <– Knuckleberry
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 1:49 p.m. – Permalink
utopian
- Could we not have put the word JOBS in there somewhere.– pillhead
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 3:27 p.m. – Permalink
pr2
listen to this, if this doesn't freak you out then i don't know what will:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/…
- I listened to this
  broadcast a few weeks
  back... some really fucked
  up shit I must say!– utopian
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Dog-earFeb 20, 12, 3:31 p.m. – Permalink
ukit2
http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/…
So Apple invited them to come in and film...this is damage control on Apple's part I guess
- good for them– pango
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 7:28 a.m. – Permalink
pillhead
Well you got to give it to companies who out source to foxcom, make cheap, pay top dollar to the end user, Fucking Win Win for everyone.
- It's better than dubstep cereal!– ukit21/2
  true– pillhead2/2
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 7:55 a.m. – Permalink
mg33
It's on!
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 8:36 p.m. – Permalink
VectorMasked
wtf. Thought it was gonna be on here in Canada.
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 8:38 p.m. – Permalink
VectorMasked
yay. it's on a different channel than usual
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 8:41 p.m. – Permalink
d_rek
Damn. Foxconn really knows how to exploit them sheep! Anyone else taking notes?
-Sent from my iPhone
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 8:43 p.m. – Permalink
d_rek
God bless capitalism!
-Sent from my iPad
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 8:43 p.m. – Permalink
utopian
- OMG– kgvs72
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Dog-earFeb 21, 12, 8:53 p.m. – Permalink
dbloc
got it recorded. I'll be watching tonight.
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