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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by _red on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:46AM (#21723493)
Yes, who cares about the forced labor camps and suicide nets around factories. I want my cheap plastic consumer devices!!
Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by oblio on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:14PM (#21723803)
> Yes, who cares about the forced labor camps and suicide nets around factories.

Nobody really cares, except for those directly involved. Sad but true, nobody will ever go to war for that, for foreign citizens.

> I want my cheap plastic consumer devices!!

People do actually want that. And their cheap shoes and clothes and...

Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by wutbrodo on Friday December 06, 2019 @01:24PM (#21724586)
> suicide nets around factories

Foxconn's suicide rate is lower than China's, along with all 50 US states. They just employ a gargantuan amount of people (400k). I don't know much about the working conditions there, so I don't have a position, but it doesn't look like there's evidence to suggest that the working conditions have anything to do with the fact that some of their employees committed suicide.

To put it another way, there's roughly as much evidence of this as there is that working in a factory in Nigeria causes sickle cell anemia.

Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by DanBC on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:43PM (#21725790)
A car park in the UK closed off the top storey and it's common to see older MSCPs adding tall fences to the top floor, and for new buildings to have these designed in from the start.

Page 25 (but see also page 23) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Fencing off tall buildings is a useful short-term suicide prevention measure.

Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by throw5543265 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @12:25PM (#21731404)
If people cared, there wouldn’t be a prison labor system in the US. Especially one that pays inmates in cents.