[POLL] PS4 BEING MANUFACTURED WITH CHILD SLAVE LABOR

I dunno if I'll ever buy a PS4, but this is pretty gross. Foxconn is the manufacturer of an absolutely huge number of products for a bunch of major electronic corporations, and has had shoddy practices at best and downright disgusting ones at worst.

I don't want to sit back and say, "Welp, that sucks, but we can't do anything about it." At the same time, if you didn't want to indirectly support these kinds of business practices, you'd have to throw out all your electronics, live in a cabin in the woods, grow your own food and make your own clothes. So... what can we do?

The only thing I can think of is to talk about it, loudly, publicly, and let these businesses know that we're against it. I have no idea if that will ever do anything at all, but... oof. I just don't know. But it's better to stay informed and aware, anyway.

Foxconn is notorious. I read about that forced student labour "internships" when that story about the iphone (or ipad?) manufacturing broke out. But then I own a Samsung smartphone so it too was probably made on the backs of student slaves. (also, my wife works at the indian residential schools adjudication secretariat)

Was this a deliberate decision designed to undercut the Xbox One?

...and look like the "good guy" by offering their console cheaper than the Xbox One.

The internet collectively blew a gasket over the Xbox One...

Whew! For a moment you almost made it sound like you're mad at something else and couldn't really care for the "blood of children". ;)

It does say "forced student labor", but the idea that the school is renting students out for manual labor unrelated to their degree is still pretty bogus... although that is uncannily common for internships, and not just in China.

I have a whole lot of words I could say about internships and especially unpaid internships and very few of them would be good

They don't get credit for this, they lose credit if they don't do the work. I agree that the child part is misleading, but it's still forced.

My vote would go to "I wasn't going to get a ps4, but this news wouldn't have changed my mind anyways". Even though it's bad and it would be better if this didn't happen, but uh, there's lots of bad things all over the world and they don't affect my decisions.

You were looking forward to the "moralizing and smokescreens" by the people who think that it's acceptable or the people who don't?

I mean, I'm pretty sure that Foxconn is the company that makes iPads with the suicide nets and the 8 year olds and shit

So "pays students with college internship credits instead of money" is pretty low on the list of shit they do that is worth posting about, even without my disdain for the volcano of lies that is news reporting

OK, follow up question, I guess

Were you looking forward to it because you like to see people point out stupidity in bad news stories or were you looking forward to it because you like to point out stupidity in posts like mine

And if the latter I'd like to hear what part of it is stupid, instead of you just posting and laughing like it's the most obvious thing in the world and then sitting there silently with your stupid smug laughing cat avatar that subconsciously somehow makes me angry at you when I probably don't really need to be

that in itself is completely tragic, though. we're all so terrified to have an opinion (since that might open us up to satire, oh no) that we've utterly paralyzed ourselves. if people stopped worrying so much about putting themselves forward as disaffected coolbodies who've seen it all before and play devil's advocate with the best of them, this kind of whistleblowing might actually mean something. it doesn't have to surprise you -- but it should evoke something inside you beyond passive disappointment and a knowing shake of the head.

silence gives consent. don't be silent.