Kathianne
08-10-2019, 09:37 PM
This really does take the cake! I don't know if any paper has been more strident on the 'caged children' on the border and saying it's all the current President, though the previous occupant of the office did much more of the same and was the originator of the practice.
Never mind that, it seems that Amazon and others that are involved in possible bluetooth spying on their customers are not only using child/slave? labor, but have left millions and millions of devices that may well be spying beyond the device owner:
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-story-i-dare-washington-post-to-report.html
Saturday, August 10, 2019
A story I dare the Washington Post to report
The Guardian reported, "Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices."
They are as young as 16 and are listed as interns. The newspaper cited interviews with workers and leaked documents from Amazon’s supplier Foxconn.
The Guardian reported (http://archive.is/Mwm7e#selection-1739.0-1751.113), "According to the documents, the teenagers – drafted in from schools and technical colleges in and around the central southern city of Hengyang – are classified as interns, and their teachers are paid by the factory to accompany them. Teachers are asked to encourage uncooperative pupils to accept overtime work on top of regular shifts.
"Some of the pupils making Amazon’s Alexa-enabled Echo and Echo Dot devices along with Kindles have been required to work for more than two months to supplement staffing levels at the factory during peak production periods, researchers found. More than 1,000 pupils are employed, aged from 16 to 18.
"Chinese factories are allowed to employ students aged 16 and older, but these schoolchildren are not allowed to work nights or overtime.
"Foxconn, which also makes iPhones for Apple, admitted that students had been employed illegally and said it was taking immediate action to fix the situation."
How fitting that a machine that spies on Americans (https://theintercept.com/2018/11/15/amazon-echo-voice-recognition-accents-alexa/) is made by overworked, underage people in Red China.
The Guardian reported, "A spokesperson for Amazon, which is headed by Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world with a fortune estimated at more than $100 billion, said the company would not tolerate violations of its supplier code of conduct and regularly assessed suppliers, often using independent auditors, to monitor compliance and improvement."
Sure.
If Bezos were so concerned, he would recall all the Alexa spying machines made under these conditions.
Meanwhile his newspaper, the Washington Post, decries the separation of children at our border.
Where is the outcry against the conscription of children to build Jeff Bezos's spying machines?
Never mind that, it seems that Amazon and others that are involved in possible bluetooth spying on their customers are not only using child/slave? labor, but have left millions and millions of devices that may well be spying beyond the device owner:
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-story-i-dare-washington-post-to-report.html
Saturday, August 10, 2019
A story I dare the Washington Post to report
The Guardian reported, "Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices."
They are as young as 16 and are listed as interns. The newspaper cited interviews with workers and leaked documents from Amazon’s supplier Foxconn.
The Guardian reported (http://archive.is/Mwm7e#selection-1739.0-1751.113), "According to the documents, the teenagers – drafted in from schools and technical colleges in and around the central southern city of Hengyang – are classified as interns, and their teachers are paid by the factory to accompany them. Teachers are asked to encourage uncooperative pupils to accept overtime work on top of regular shifts.
"Some of the pupils making Amazon’s Alexa-enabled Echo and Echo Dot devices along with Kindles have been required to work for more than two months to supplement staffing levels at the factory during peak production periods, researchers found. More than 1,000 pupils are employed, aged from 16 to 18.
"Chinese factories are allowed to employ students aged 16 and older, but these schoolchildren are not allowed to work nights or overtime.
"Foxconn, which also makes iPhones for Apple, admitted that students had been employed illegally and said it was taking immediate action to fix the situation."
How fitting that a machine that spies on Americans (https://theintercept.com/2018/11/15/amazon-echo-voice-recognition-accents-alexa/) is made by overworked, underage people in Red China.
The Guardian reported, "A spokesperson for Amazon, which is headed by Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world with a fortune estimated at more than $100 billion, said the company would not tolerate violations of its supplier code of conduct and regularly assessed suppliers, often using independent auditors, to monitor compliance and improvement."
Sure.
If Bezos were so concerned, he would recall all the Alexa spying machines made under these conditions.
Meanwhile his newspaper, the Washington Post, decries the separation of children at our border.
Where is the outcry against the conscription of children to build Jeff Bezos's spying machines?