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Headline: >At an Indian iPhone Plant (implying it's an Apple plant) Article: >a Foxconn plant in southern India >Venpa Staffing Services, a Foxconn contract
by NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
Headline:
>At an Indian iPhone Plant (implying it's an Apple plant)
Article:
>a Foxconn plant in southern India
>Venpa Staffing Services, a Foxconn contractor that runs the dorm where workers were sickened by food poisoning, declined to comment.
So it's Venpa Staffing who's responsible, but the headline implies Apple.
I'm all for holding people accountable, but this is irritatingly deceptive journalism.
- Strilanc 5y agoApple is paying them money to make iPhones (according to the article). Apple is surely aware of this sort of behavior; maybe not the specific instance but the general fact. This makes Apple complicit. Similar to how buying factory farmed meat makes one complicit in factory farming.
- vanusa 5y agoExactly - "follow the money". It's very clear where the responsibility lies.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoWith the people who purchase iPhones? That's where Apple's money comes from.
- vanusa 5y agoBoth the consumer and the manufacturer are responsible -- on an abstract, ethical level. But in practical terms the manufacturer has infinitely more leverage over the situation.