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Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-no-evil dept.

walterbyrd writes "Google announced today that it will donate $11.5M to groups dedicated to ending modern day slavery. 'In what is believed to be the largest-ever corporate grant devoted to the advocacy, intervention and rescue of people being held, forced to work or provide sex against their will, Google said it chose organizations with proven records in combating slavery.'"

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  1. Great news by zppln · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is great news. The fact that slavery is still very much in effect in countries like Mauritania isn't something a lot of people are aware about. Hopefully this will raise the issue.

  2. Re:Easy to do by Jackdaw+Rookery · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're an idiot. You understand that these factories don't just make Apple products, right? They make products for lots of big players.

    Copy/Paste from Wikipedia's Foxconn page:

            Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
            Amazon.com (United States)[16]
            Apple Inc. (United States)[18]
            ASRock (Taiwan)
            Barnes & Noble (United States)
            Intel (United States)
            Cisco (United States)
            Hewlett-Packard (United States)[19]
            Dell (United States)
            Nintendo (Japan)
            Nokia (Finland)[18]
            Microsoft (United States)
            MSI (Taiwan)
            Motorola (United States)
            Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)[20]
            Vizio (United States)

  3. Dearest world, by mjwx · · Score: 4, Informative

    #1 - US - 743 per 100K pop.
    #65 - New Zealand - 199 per 100K pop.
    #87 - England and Wales - 156 per 100K pop.
    #111 - Australia - 133 per 100K pop.

    Yeah bitches, now who's full of criminals.

    Signed,
    Australia.

    --
    Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.