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Is there a major mobile phone producer with lower morals than Samsung?
by msh 10y ago
Is there a major mobile phone producer with lower morals than Samsung?
- lallysingh 10y agoAre there morals in mobile phones?
- LesZedCB 10y agocapitalism has no morals.
- pearjuice 10y agoApple comes to mind.
- cmdrfred 10y agoYour getting downvoted beacuse morals only apply to people in the same social caste as you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
- akerro 10y agoThis thing is called "suicide net", plenty of images of them on Google Image, eg here http://www.secretsofthefed.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FOXCON-APPLE-SUICIDE-NETS.jpg http://www.secretsofthefed.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/FO... If some people find them moral, maybe they will find this a bit less moral: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/19/children-as-young-as-seven-mining-cobalt-for-use-in-smartphones-says-amnesty https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/19/c...
- gambiting 10y agoAnd I am sure that employees working at factories that make parts for other manufacturers absolutely never kill themselves due to their work, and that foxconn never supplies parts for anyone else but Apple? Let's be realistic for a second.
- cmdrfred 10y agoFrom the wiki "Fell from apartment building[11] after losing an iPhone prototype in his possession.[12] Prior to death, he claimed he was beaten and his residence searched by Foxconn employees."
- gambiting 10y agoAnd if Apple used any other factory in China it wouldn't have happened? Or are you saying that Apple murdered someone?
- clarry 10y ago> And if Apple used any other factory in China it wouldn't have happened? It could have happened in another factory. However, it surely wouldn't have happened in every single factory. And it shouldn't have happened in any factory. If large corps like Apple are in a position to influence a change such than things like this do not happen in the factories they rely on, then perhaps it is their moral responsibility to do so. If not them, who else would do it?
- burger_moon 10y agoFoxconn and their awful employment treatment are brought to you by the profits of more than just Apple however. Perhaps that's why people have a knee jerk reaction to singling out a tech company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers
- cmdrfred 10y agoThat's relative morality, not morality.
- icebraining 10y agoFrom your link (emphasis mine): "The suicide rate at Foxconn during 2010 remained lower than that of the general Chinese population at the time as well as all 50 states of the United States."
- msh 10y agoHow are their morals worse than samsung? I don't remember them trying to bribe a president.
- turblety 10y agoMaybe not a mobile phone producer, but certainly YouTube has morals at least the same as, if not lower than Samsung. We really need to fight these censorship issues before it's too late.
- neolefty 10y agoIt's an automated system designed to comply with the DMCA. Give it a few days for manual intervention to shake things out, then judge.
- amelius 10y agoSony?