Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt

Re:Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt by neuroticfish on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:15AM (#21826329)

>Yet, somehow, a multiBILLION dollar company can just buy material from warlords or whatever tribe in remote parts of China, and ship MILLIONS OF POUNDS of it out of that region, but nobody can get a fucking receipt?

What normally happens in this process is that the selling country's government official who is tasked with verifying the integrity of the receipt is bribed with a month or more salary to sign the exchange off as legitimate, e.g. the Kimberley Process. There has got to be a solution to this problem but paper trails are notoriously unreliable in scenarios like this one.

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Re:Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt by jacquesm on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:38AM (#21826598)

Wasn't bribery illegal?

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Re:Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt by bluGill on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:21PM (#21827067)

So? Who is going to know or enforce it?

Most bribes are not obvious. More like give money to the charity my brother in law runs. The charity even does some good, but the real purpose is to pay the brother in law a nice salary and pay for family trips to various places the charity operates. (You should be suspicious anytime the family of a politician has any association with a charity - it might be a real charity but often it is a way to hide bribes)

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Re:Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt by alasdair_ on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:35PM (#21827783)

"Speaking assignments" where you pay someone $8 Million to read a prepared speech for an hour is another common way to bribe people.

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