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Motherboard has been following Foxconn for a while and they have a new report out today, which talks about the OTHER riots breaking out in China over the last 24 hours. But they have a whole cache of material pertaining to Foxconn over the past couple of years. I would also look to BetaBeat's story today and The Verge.

Motherboard has been following Foxconn for a while and they have a new report out today, which talks about the OTHER riots breaking out in China over the last 24 hours. But they have a whole cache of material pertaining to Foxconn over the past couple of years. I would also look to BetaBeat's story today and The Verge.

First it was Afghanistan. You thought that everyone fighting against authoritarian Soviets was automatically pro-democracy and pro-human rights; and what's wrong if they speak of Islam and jihad occasionally? Clearly it's only against the bad guys. And so you gave them money and guns and trained them, and the end result was a country where most schools (build by those very Soviets) were demolished and replaced by madrassas, and secular if authoritarian government replaced by fanatics who were stoning women on football stadiums for adultery after they were raped.

(Oh, and don't say that you didn't support Taliban. This guy was no better, and most of his troops ended up in Taliban anyway.)

And what do you get for it in the end? A whole country turned into a giant terrorist training camp that's now working against you, and using those very weapons that you've supplied them to kill your soldiers, and workers that you send to try to rebuild the country. The training camp that produced those people who committed the biggest terrorist act ever in the history of this planet, against the USA.

Then there was Kosovo. Again, "freedom fighters" against a totalitarian regime and all that. Again, a decade afterwards it's slowly growing to be another place where Wahhabism spreads, only this time in the middle of Europe (and also a major drug transit center to boot, to finance the operation). And, again, the chickens are coming home to roost.

Now there's Libya. It's only been a year since the downfall of the regime - thanks largely to heavy NATO military backing of the rebel "freedom fighters" - and we've already seen genocide of the black population, widespread persecuting of Christians, and now this act of outright hostility towards USA and the murder of its citizens and representatives. You can go on at length about how the real, democratically elected government of Libya is liberal and all about human rights and such, but what this incident clearly shows is that they're not a government. They're simply not in control of the country. And people that are in control, because they have guns (that you gave them) and troops and determination - people like this - hate democracy and human rights with a passion, and hate you because you are representative of that. And you can't even say that they haven't warned you if you were only willing to see and listen...

But, hey, that's still not quite enough jihadis, right? Let's create another breeding ground for them in Syria as well?

Slab city. If you live in the US, you don't need to even leave the country or find a new ID. Just hide out with the people that gave up on society. They live rent free, and off the grid. http://www.vice.com/read/slab-city-884-v16n6

"North - US says they I bad, I really don't know for sure though."

North Korea is a country held hostage ala 1984. Here's a Canadian's perspective:

North Korean Labor Camps -Sneaking into North Korea's Secret Russian Labor Camp (think conflict wood from the likes of IKEA).
http://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-korean-labor-camps-part-1

The Vice Guide to North Korea.
http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3

"North - US says they I bad, I really don't know for sure though."

North Korea is a country held hostage ala 1984. Here's a Canadian's perspective:

North Korean Labor Camps -Sneaking into North Korea's Secret Russian Labor Camp (think conflict wood from the likes of IKEA).
http://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-korean-labor-camps-part-1

The Vice Guide to North Korea.
http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3

Or 20 minutes (also from motherboard).

I agree with the parent. If you were giving money to hardcore racists every time you purchased a transistor...then yea, I would have a problem with them. Same way I have a problem with people supporting the tyrannical organization that is the IOC. In order to host the Olympics, the host country must pass laws that essentially abolosh all civil rights in any cases where the Olympics are involved. You no longer have any right to free speech (assuming you did before they came...,) you are assumed guilty until proven innocent of any IP violations, they cause forced evictions, violate safety laws for the workers building the Olympic facilities...by supporting the Olympics you are supporting the IOC, and the IOC is just generally a horrible organization.

See:
http://www.vice.com/rule-britannia/the-vice-guide-to-the-olympics-part-1
http://www.techdirt.com/search.php?cx=partner-pub-4050006937094082%3Acx0qff-dnm1&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Olympics

The debate is clarified here too. But Obama really messed up with that line.
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/23/dear-internet-whatever-you-say-you-were-invented-by-the-government

George Lucas will promptly sue him and everyone involved for copyright infringement

http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/12/george-lucas-owns-the-universe-a-timeline-of-star-wars-copyright-battles

Actually, NeXT boxes were made in the good ol' U.S. of A--I believe Steve Jobs built a factory up in Fremont, California. Of course, it was mostly automated...

And therein lies the real charm of how this story is worded: the celebration is in favour of the publication of a description, not the discovery. The last link in the summary covers the controversy a bit; though it leaves out mention of the graduate student that Watson and Crick acquired to help them through the hydrogen bonding, the name of whom escapes me at the moment. (Anyone remember?) I always felt he deserved more credit than he got.

true: Apple, directly or indirectly, uses child and slave labor to make consumer electronics.

true: So does everyone else.

true: You don't care.

If you want to cause change: Either mass-protest ALL of these companies and their products (good luck!), or do a startup if you have a better idea.

Otherwise: Stop pretending and continue loving your "precious" at all costs while screwing underage Chinese girls, you disgusting pedophiles.

"In light of Sabu's apparent arrest, and cooperation with the government, I've reprinted a selection from my chat with him about identity, hacker vigilantes, and his fear of getting busted." link

Slaves, as in teenage mandatory "internship" programs
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/2/15/foxconn-s-other-dirty-secret-the-world-s-largest-internship-program

brianerst pointed out:

King's "I Have a Dream" speech has rather famously been the source of numerous copyright lawsuits by the King Estate. See here for example.

The PBS special the OP was speaking of was "Eyes on the Prize", which was out of print for years until the producers got nearly $1 million in grants in order to pay off copyright holders after their original five-year rebroadcast rights had expired.

I would think that most everyone here knows that just because something can be found on YouTube doesn't mean that it's there legally. The vast majority of music on that site violates US copyright law.

Now, this deserves a +5 Informative mod (although it actually got a +5 Insightful one, instead).

The King estate copyright claim (and MLK's original claim) IS abuse of the copyright system. I'm old enough to have watched the "I have a dream" speech live on TV, before a crowd that covered the Mall, and it seems to me that a challenge to the original copyright claim could and should have been mounted right after King made the speech - and I think it would have succeeded, then. The other part of the problem here is the concept of legal precedent, which idiotically holds that, once a court has ruled on an issue, that decision is somehow graven in stone, and, in subsequent trials of approximately-similar cases, the judge must abide by the arguments advanced by the judge who presided over the original case, no matter how fallacious his/her logic might be, and irrespective of actual facts.

For example, take the odious decision in State of Ohio v Anderson (please forgive the horrible PDF scan), where Justice Resnick, writing for the Ohio Supreme Court, retails a laundry list of supposed characteristics unique to pit bulls that includes a staggering number of misrepresentations (e.g. - pit bulls are the only dogs that bite and hold), assertions unbacked by evidence of any kind (e.g.- pit bulls are the only dogs that can climb trees!), and outright fabrications (e.g. - pit bulls bite with a force of 2000 pounds per square inch, a bite force unmatched by any other breed). These canards, in turn, are all based on State of Florida v Peters (a much-better-quality PDF), a case in which the Peters's defense counsel should have been shot for gross incompetence for not challenging the assertion of fairy tales as fact. And the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of Anderson, despite the clearly-unconstitutional assertion by Resnick that any law enforcement officer is capable of determining whether a mixed breed dog is or is not a pit bull, and that anyone who is unsure whether the dog they propose to adopt is a pit bull in the meaning of the law can definitively determine that question by asking any clown with a badge to pass judgement (totally ignoring the excellent possibility that some other cop will reach a different conclusion, and charge you with violating Ohio's requirement that you maintain $100,000 in liabilty insurance for each pit bull you own - insurance that it's impossible to obtain, unless you're a licensed breeder, btw). And this is not a mere theoretical conundrum of which I speak. I'm currently charged with exactly this crime, for owning a bullmastiff mix, even though the Ross County Dog Warden has evaluated her and stated (before four witnesses), "There's no pit in this animal." (I'm also charged with the same "crime" for owning a boxer that my wife and I adopted from the county animal shelter two years ago.)

It's not just copyright law - the legal system itself is broken. And the MAFIAA is no worse than your typical local prosecutor - because, just like the MAFIAA, the prosecutor's favorite exercise is overreaching.

None of which obviates my point that only Congre

This drivel was rated Insightful +5? You have got to be kidding me. Kennedy's inaugural address is available on Youtube. So is MLK's "I have a dream" speech.

King's "I Have a Dream" speech has rather famously been the source of numerous copyright lawsuits by the King Estate. See here for example.

The PBS special the OP was speaking of was "Eyes on the Prize", which was out of print for years until the producers got nearly $1 million in grants in order to pay off copyright holders after their original five-year rebroadcast rights had expired.

I would think that most everyone here knows that just because something can be found on YouTube doesn't mean that it's there legally. The vast majority of music on that site violates US copyright law.

As I understand, a large part of current US Senators and Representatives pride themselves on never having used the internet.

At all.

http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works

Our glorious leader was of course an internet expert, and was also an anonymous contributor to the ALL of the RFCs on the internet, shaping the wave of future for our generation and generations to come. He didn't want to "upsize" anyone with his vast contributions to computer science and technology, so in his humbleness contributed only anonymously, under several different identities.

Not only that, but our glorious leader was also a heavy contributor to the linux operating systems (and was in fact counsel to the NSA's own changes to the linux kernel, SELinux - known only to him and the NSA at the time as NKJLinux - Naenara-Kim Jong Linux).

From the comment here.

http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works I mean, they are currently debating how they can engineer a solution to redesign DNS on the Internet! These guys are geniuses! I am proud to be able to have these people represent me!