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Workers Poisoned Making Touchscreen Hardware

Posted by Soulskill on from the welcome-to-the-jungle dept.

SocResp writes "A chemical called n-hexane has been poisoning the nervous systems of Chinese workers who assemble touchscreen devices for Apple and other companies, an investigative journalist from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. It's scary to think that people are being damaged to pursue high production rates. For companies with soaring profits and share prices, and elaborate product development and marketing, it seems they should be all the more culpable if they fail to take care of the production workers."

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  1. Re:They're Chinese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They have extras...

    That reminds me.

    How do you blindfold a Chinese man? Dental floss.

    How do Chinese parents come up with names for their children? They throw a bunch of silverware down the stairs.

  2. Re:They're Chinese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And we have slave labour

  3. Re:It's a WalMart world after all by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Troll

    And how many Chinese do you think died fabricating and assembling your ThinkPad?

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  4. Someone mod down this idiot by KhabaLox · · Score: 0, Troll

    How incredibly stupid of you, to say that a set of ethnic groups is a race. Shame on you.

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  5. Re:It's a WalMart world after all by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Troll

    Again, skirting my posts original intent. Sorry, I'm done feeding this troll.

    I'm awfully sorry I screwed with your self-righteous moral outrage by hitting the hypocrisy button

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