Re:Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
by TakuYam on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:14PM
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That’s an incredibly serious claim to make, do you have evidence to support your claims?
Re:Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
by xxpor on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:53PM
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It's not particularly controversial. Here's the NY version, for example. https://corcraft.ny.gov/
There's an explicit carve out in the 13th amendment's slavery prohibition for people convicted of crimes.
Re:Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
by selectodude on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:28PM
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They make signs and license plates for the state. As far as prison labor goes, that seems relatively benign.
Re:Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
by ncmncm on Thursday December 23, 2021 @04:03PM
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They do a very great deal more than that. Places with strong unions restrict what they do just so they don't compete with union labor. But that leaves enormous leeway, which is reliably exploited.
Many private prisons have contracts with states guaranteeing them a quota of prisoners, on pain of monetary penalties. It becomes the job of police and courts to deliver that quota, regardless of behavior, because there is no money budgeted for penalties.
Everybody can be found guilty of something, if you want to.
So, it is probably important to verify that such products are not from prison labor.
China has is rightly criticized for unjustified incarceration, particularly in Xinjiang, but the US incarcerates many more on largely similar pretexts, which amounts to a much larger fraction of its population. Reducing US incarceration rate is a moral imperative.