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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by toyg on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:38AM (#25496497)
Lots of companies already audit their production chains, precisely in response of public pressure on the subject. Nike and football manufacturers are the most famous examples; also coffee, chocolate, and banana producers. This sort of thing, while not perfect, brought massive improvements in working condition in poor countries over the last 30 years.
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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:58AM (#25496752)
It can achieve good results, I don't deny that.

Chocolate, coffee, and banana producers are in a different context. If you want to stop child labor on the chocolate farms, there's currently no choice but to have Nestle and Hershey do it, because the governments in Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire either can't or won't enforce their own laws on the topic.

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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by toyg on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:13PM (#25501389)
The various Asian governments involved into tech production chains know what goes down in each and every factory. They know workers exploitation is massive, and they don’t care.
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