[Discuss] foxconn

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 07:47:18AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> I've recently read a news article which talked about Foxconn and
> their supposed abusive labour practices. Foxconn is the maker of a
> lot of popular electronics including the iPhone.
> 
> This got me thinking, when I go off an buy a motherboard or memory
> SIMM or whatever, am I buying a product which has been manufactured
> by laborers who work under conditions I wouldn't allow my own family
> to work under? Is there any awarness campain or whatever which
> allows one to buy some electronic component which was manufactured
> in conditions which meet some kind of labor standards? On my part, I
> would pay more for my electronic components if I new they were being
> manufactured using a by someone who's working under good conditions,
> not sweat shop like conditions. Am I being too paranoid about this
> in the sense that labor conditions in China are just fine and the
> workers are well paid and not over worked?
> 
> I think this is on topic for Blu.... Sorry if I'm off topic...

As far as I can tell, all of the motherboard manufacturers in
the world are unethical at best... possibly excluding Intel, but
I don't actually know.

I have heard specifically bad things about Asus, Foxconn,
Gigabyte, and MSI.

-dsr-