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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by MaxHoppersGhost on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:01AM (#25571057)
Exactly. No one is ditching their iPhone. It’s all about the blue text bubbles. If Americans would just switch to WhatsApp or something else like the rest of the world we could get past the Android stigma.
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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:09AM (#25571158)
Is the labor used to make an iPhone and different than any other phone? Or any other electronics for that matter?

As far as I know, unless you stop consuming electronics completely, you’re not avoiding the labor abuses mining the necessary metals in Central Africa or the labor to manufacture it in Asia.

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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by corty on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:33AM (#25571490)
There is e.g. Fairphone
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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by ficklepickle on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:39AM (#25571577)
If that's what people care about, then humanity deserves what is coming to it.
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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by alisonkisk on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:54AM (#25571767)
What's coming? A hedonic exploitation of poor and oppressed humans? The global rich are largely happy to get that.
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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by philliphaydon on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:28AM (#25571430)
WhatsApp is terrible and insecure. Facebook already knows too much about me.
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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by herbst on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:38AM (#25571559)
So why not Signal? Telegram? Slack? Discord if thats your thing. Or even Email?

I mean we do have plenty of choice, many actually caring about security and their users.

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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by monocasa on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @01:34PM (#25573116)
Telegram, Slack, and Discord are also awful for privacy FWIW.
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