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tk2kewl

(18,133 posts) Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:47 PM Mar 2012

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Apple uses child labor? Cali_Democrat Mar 2012 #1

That's only if your iDevice was manufactured before 2/2011 Cirque du So-What Mar 2012 #4

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I imagine a Bible verse or two would ad an additional sense of the dramatic... LanternWaste Mar 2012 #7

Cali_Democrat

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1. Apple uses child labor?

Reply to tk2kewl (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:49 PM

Mar 2012

I was aware that working conditions were poor in their factories, but I wasn't aware that they used child labor.

That's awful.

Cirque du So-What

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4. That's only if your iDevice was manufactured before 2/2011

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:55 PM

Mar 2012

if Apple management and that of the Chinese companies in question can be trusted, that is.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/021511-apple-child-labor.html

Apple admitted that it had been done for some time, so there's no reason to believe that it won't be done again, once the initial furor has died down sufficiently.