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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft investigates as sweatshop spotlight shines on supplier
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>> | The report says that the workers have
>> | virtually no rights, every single labor law
>> | in China is violated, and codes of conduct
>> | like those of Microsoft and HP have zero
>> | impact. Over the past three years,
>> | photographs showing exhausted teenaged
>> | workers have been smuggled out of the KYE
>> | factory, along with worker interviews and
>> | accounts. Smuggling was necessary because
>> | factory management prohibits anyone,
>> | including clients like Microsoft, from
>> | taking pictures inside the factory or in the
>> | workers' primitive and dirty dorm rooms.
>> |
>> | KYE recruits hundreds of "work study
>> | students" as young as 16 or 17 years old (in
>> | 2007 and 2008, dozens of them were reported
>> | to be just 14 or 15). Management likes the
>> | high school students since they are easy to
>> | discipline and control. For the same reason,
>> | KYE prefers to hire women 18 to 25 years of
>> | age, who are often sexually harassed by
>> | security guards, according to NLC.
>> `----
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>> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/microsoft-investigates-as-sweatshop-spotlight-shines-on-supplier.ars
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>> Labor group: Chinese teens 'like prisoners' in Microsoft tech factory
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>> http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/201685.asp
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>>
>> Recent:
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>> Congress slams China and Microsoft, praises Google
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>> | Two days after Google stopped censoring
>> | search results in China, a congressional
>> | panel praised the company's actions while
>> | excoriating the Beijing government for its
>> | record on Internet censorship and human
>> | rights.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | "They [Microsoft] need to get on the right
>> | side of human rights rather than enabling
>> | tyranny, which they're doing right now,"
>> | Smith said.
>> `----
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>> http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/24/technology/china_google_hearing/index.htm
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>>
>> Congress Rebukes Microsoft's Chinese Censorship, Microsoft Fires Back
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>> http://www.dailytech.com/Congress+Rebukes+Microsofts+Chinese+Censorship+Microsoft+Fires+Back/article17984.htm
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>> Congress On China: Google Gets A Big Wet Kiss. Microsoft Is âEnabling
>> Tyrannyâ
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>> http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/26/china-microsoft-google-tyranny/
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>> Congressman: In China, Microsoft is 'enabling tyranny'
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>> http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/199369.asp?from=blog_last3
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>> Lawmaker Blasts Microsoft
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>> | Microsoft came under attack Wednesday from
>> | a House lawmaker for not following Google's
>> | lead in resisting China's demand for
>> | foreign firms to abide by the country's
>> | censorship rules and Internet restrictions.
>> |
>> | During a hearing focused on Internet
>> | control in China before the Congressional-
>> | Executive Commission on China, Rep. Chris
>> | Smith, R-NJ, singled out Microsoft, which
>> | has said it will continue to operate in
>> | China and follow Chinese laws. Microsoft
>> | "needs to get with the program" and "join
>> | the side of human rights...rather than
>> | enabling tyranny," Smith said.
>> `----
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>> http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/lawmaker-blasts-microsoft.php
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>> Microsoft's Suport of Chinese Censorship: Smart Business, Poor Morals
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>> http://www.dailytech.com/Microsofts+Suport+of+Chinese+Censorship+Smart+Business+Poor+Morals/article17966.htm
>
> Actually, not much is made in the US anymore. Anything you buy here
> you'll find a tag that says made in China... a lot of products have that
> tag now.
They let the national debt grow. How long before China cuts the middleman
("knowledge worker") from the West?
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