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I predict that the anti-Apple movement will say that the story was mostly true as told, and any denials by the Chinese interpreter were politically motivated, f
by evan_ 15y ago
I predict that the anti-Apple movement will say that the story was mostly true as told, and any denials by the Chinese interpreter were politically motivated, forced by Foxconn and the Chinese government.
- rbarooah 15y agoMike Daisey admits to the fabrication.
- evan_ 15y agobut the story feels so true!
- guelo 15y agoIt's a movement? That seems a little over the top.
- baconner 15y agoIt's not an anti-apple movement its a fair and humane electronics manufacturing labor movement. Apple is a huge and well known brand so they are natural fit for a story, but its also well known and reported that foxconn and friends are widely used by other electronics companies. These are serious issues about how human beings are treated and they deserve more from than a reframe into a silly tribal squabble over who prefers what brand.
- jonhendry 15y ago"It's not an anti-apple movement its a fair and humane electronics manufacturing labor movement." China's labor problems aren't limited to their electronics factories.
- baconner 15y agoFair point, but electronics has been the recent center of it. There's long been an overall fair labor movement no?
- jonhendry 15y agoNot sure how much that has reached into China. And industries like coal mining in China desperately need worker protections, but Western consumer purchases are unlikely to have any way to cause that.