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If there are sweatshop-like conditions as the article implies there might be, yes Foxconn's clients deserve some kind of action (most likely a boycott). Howeve
by j_baker 17y ago
If there are sweatshop-like conditions as the article implies there might be, yes Foxconn's clients deserve some kind of action (most likely a boycott).
However, should they be held responsible for guards assaulting a reporter who was likely trying to get information he shouldn't have been? I don't think so. It would be very hard to find a contractor if you were held responsible for every crime they committed.
I suppose it would be reasonable to hold Apple responsible somehow if you could prove they ordered something like this, but I don't think that would be likely (occam's razor and all).
- davidw 17y ago> trying to get information he shouldn't have been Reporters' jobs are to get information and disseminate it. He was doing his job, and not doing anything illegal or even unethical, it seems to me.
- j_baker 17y agoWe're talking about a potential new Apple product here, not Watergate. Were the guards justified in assaulting the reporter? Absolutely not. Did the reporter have reason to suspect that the guards might frown on that kind of behavior? Yes. My point isn't to say that the reporter was necessarily doing anything wrong or the guards were correct. My point is that this is hardly an international incident that has much implication for Apple or any of the other named corporations.