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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by mschuster91 on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:30AM (#25493934)
> Why is there no public outrage towards Apple?

This may be because of the 250 million strong general strike and the farmer strike that has hit India in the last weeks (https://www.deccanherald.com/national/at-least-25-crore-work...). There has been almost zero reporting in Western media about that one, the only thing that drew a tiny bit of attention were the Apple riots.

Under normal circumstances I guess there would be many reports about what's going on, but media conglomerates don't want to give the population the idea that general strikes and riots work.

We need decoupling of media ownership and society's rich/elites, fast.

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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by gruez on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:55AM (#25495994)
AFAIK the 250 million figure is a very generous estimate given by the labor groups. 250 million works out to around half of india's workforce. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and we haven't seen that so far. Yes, it's possible that the elites are suppressing the news and the lack of them is only more proof of their involvement, but that goes into conspiracy territory.
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