Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn

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Posted by timothy on Sunday September 23, 2012 @03:05PM from the make-inciteful-comments dept.

Presto Vivace writes with news (as reported by Engadget) of a riot at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker, and writes "Something is going on at Foxconn. Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about Chinese labor disputes?" Reports of the riot are also at Reuters, TUAW, and CNBC, to name a few.

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Strange by rhavan · 2012-09-23 15:07 · Score: 5, Funny

I was trying to find the plant in question on IOS Maps, but I don't see it.
1. Re:Strange by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-23 15:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You'd be lucky to find China with those maps.
2. Re:Strange by postmortem · 2012-09-23 15:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You might find it, but it might not be where you expect it.
  http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/32042128251/taken-on-my-ipad
3. Re:Strange by morcego · 2012-09-23 15:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You'd be lucky to find China with those maps.
  It is right between Italy and Venezuela.
  
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4. Re:Strange by Tough+Love · 2012-09-23 15:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Oh so you're saying, Apple actually developed iOS 6 maps to please the Chinese government and we shouldn't just ascribe it to incompetence?
  
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5. Re:Strange by SomePgmr · 2012-09-23 16:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Ah, it's a feature, not a bug. Also, you're holding it wrong.
  I know this routine. ;)
6. Re:Strange by Stormwatch · 2012-09-23 17:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In your map of China, there's a lot of something that is not China. Don't worry, here is the corrected version.
  
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7. Re:Strange by rjames13 · 2012-09-23 18:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Not that Venezuela the one floating off the coast of Zambia.
8. Re:Strange by NickFortune · 2012-09-23 19:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I was trying to find the plant on my S III but I first had to reboot, after which the battery promptly went dead.
  
  I'm just waiting for the new to break that even bigger riots have been reported from at least three Samsung factories. And Samsung senior executives have been personally executing the rioters. By crucifixion, I expect.
  C'mon, you Appleturfers! Time to earn your salary!
  
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Re:Workers rights by Jahf · 2012-09-23 15:18 · Score: 1, Funny

Well duh, the iPhone 5s won't be released this year.

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Re:Who cares? by formfeed · 2012-09-23 15:30 · Score: 5, Funny

I know dude!
Here I am, buying cheap electronic components, and I know that by doing so I support a state
where the police can arrest you if they don't like the way you look and your papers don't convince them that you are a good citizen.
A place where any worker can just be fired and replaced without reason.
A state, where workers have no right to organize and might even be arrested for trying.
-But on the other hand, I like the cheap stuff I get from Arizona.
Nerve staple them! by Aardpig · 2012-09-23 16:01 · Score: 3, Funny

Chairman Yang would approve.

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Re:Android phones are made out of hemp in the USA by Aardpig · 2012-09-23 16:03 · Score: 4, Funny

No, not hemp; it's rainbows shat out by unicorns and then sun-dried.

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Re:Reuters Has The Story by Aardpig · 2012-09-23 16:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Gentlemen -- welcome to Foxconn Club. The first rule of Foxconn Club is...

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No first-hand accounts by SeaFox · 2012-09-23 16:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Something is going on at Foxconn. Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about Chinese labor disputes?
Drat! If only there was someone on the scene with a smartphone with a really good camera and fast data connection!
Re:Reports differ by Kohath · 2012-09-23 17:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Wouldn't anything of value be off topic?
Re:Labor disputes by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2012-09-23 18:34 · Score: 5, Funny

This is China. There won't be any news.
Typical western elitist propaganda.
I saw the story prominently covered on Sina Weibo. The Foxconn workers held a contest to see who was the happiest. The winner won the right to shake the Foxconn chairman's hand. So many Foxconn workers wanted to shake the chairman's hand, they all surged forward and broke a fence. Smiling security workers were dispatched to assist the few who received minor injuries.

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Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! by mvdwege · 2012-09-23 19:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Behold the sense of iHumor.

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ker-lap alap alap! by Hognoxious · 2012-09-23 19:22 · Score: 5, Funny

You need to stop basing your views on sitcom caricatures.

You're just a cowardly insecure little bitch who didn't know life was going to be this way
Is his job a joke? Is his love-life DOA?

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Re:Who cares? by gnasher719 · 2012-09-23 20:34 · Score: 5, Funny

A single example of a US citizen being arrested for the way they look and not having papers?
They made a movie about that. I think it was called "Rambo".
Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! by Worthless_Comments · 2012-09-23 22:19 · Score: 5, Funny

I have a number I can give you for a good stick-remover. You know, if you get tired of having one up your ass.
Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! by Stele · 2012-09-24 01:14 · Score: 5, Funny

The map is fine - you're just reading it wrong.
Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! by L4t3r4lu5 · 2012-09-24 01:25 · Score: 3, Funny

My local town doesn't exist on their map.

It is, however, in the Domesday Book.

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