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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Srsly? by ugen · 2012-09-23 15:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yes, and slashdot readers are a great source of news from Chinese sweatshop plants because demographics are, like, so close.
Labor disputes by girlintraining · 2012-09-23 15:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

"Something is going on at Foxconn. Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about Chinese labor disputes?"

This is China. There won't be any news.

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1. Re:Labor disputes by Opportunist · 2012-09-23 21:08 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  It would be an improvement over their fascist government.
  Just because someone labels himself one thing doesn't make it so. Allegedly, the US is a republic, you see?
  
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Who cares? by AntiBasic · 2012-09-23 15:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

Who cares? I'm sitting in a coffee shop sipping on fairtrade coffee on blogging on my retina macbook pro about Obama and talking on my new iphone 5.
Scumbag western liberals: claims to support the working class, gladly buys products from a communist dictatorship with an abysmal human rights record
1. Re:Who cares? by SwedishPenguin · 2012-09-23 15:45 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  This has nothing to do with a "communist dictatorship" (though it should be noted that China is about as far from communism as can be), it has everything to do with companies in the wealthy part of the world using workers in poorer parts of the world as virtual slave labor. It is the epitome of capitalism, for owners to make as much money as possible simply by virtue of already having a lot of it, while paying their workers as little as they can possibly get away with.
2. Re:Who cares? by realityimpaired · 2012-09-23 23:06 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  They are the shining example of capitalism.... and the poster child for why neither unfettered communism nor unfettered capitalism is a system that works.
Re:Strange by Yvanhoe · 2012-09-23 15:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

I wish there were a +1 Frightening moderation option

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"Good source for news" ? by Alex+Belits · 2012-09-23 15:39 · Score: 4, Insightful

Do any Slashdotters know of a good source for news about Chinese labor disputes?
I am sure, Foxconn, Apple, CIA, Chinese Communist Party and Dalai Lama have plenty to say about those things. Or, by "good" you mean something that is not pure spin? Then no.

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Reports differ by Kohath · 2012-09-23 16:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

The guys at wehateapple.com are saying it's the worst thing in history and that Apple will finally get what's coming to them for all teh evils. But the guys at appleisgreat.com are saying it's no big deal and stuff like this happens all the time.
Meanwhile, the guys at mindyourownbusiness.com don't have a report about it at all, but they do have some good reports that seem relevant to my own life. At mindsomeoneelsesbusiness.com, they're extremely interested in whether African tribes that make their own beer are at a greater risk for gout from too much yeast and they think it's the fault of the US government for some reason.
At newsfornerds.com, they're just trolling for clicks, so they put up a story with no information to get Apple haters and Apple fanboys sniping at each other. Later, they'll be posting stories about evolution, Mitt Romney's failure to announce any female cabinet members, an ask newsfornerds.com question about whether Dragon Age 3 will be more heterosexual-friendly than Dragon Age 2, and a statement from RMS about how the government should stop paying school teachers because they should be sharing their knowledge for free.
If the Chinese aren't careful... by istartedi · 2012-09-23 16:25 · Score: 4, Insightful

If the Chinese aren't careful, they're going to have a communist revolution on their hands.
Sorry, I might have trotted that one out before; but it has fit so perfectly the past decade or so.

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Re:How Much by shadowofwind · 2012-09-23 17:11 · Score: 4, Insightful

Equipment costs have always dwarfed manufacturing labor costs in the IC industry. Government subsidized fab construction is a major reason it moved to Asia. And other production like assembling phones is cheaper closer to where the components are made.
Re:Well don't look to Google for answers! by Macthorpe · 2012-09-23 21:30 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yeah, all your examples are from 2010, and from cursory glance, they're all resolved. Also you included at least one link to errors that were appearing in Google Places, not Google Maps.
You might think it's unfair that we're judging a map that's been out for less than a month to one that's been out for years, but if you're going to release a new product it's going to be compared to what is currently available. The fact is, there are too many errors in obvious stuff - misspelled capital cities, duplications of entire islands, famous landmarks with incorrect coastlines. It's a complete abandonment of the philosophy of "It Just Works".

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Re:Strange by yuje · 2012-09-23 21:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yes, after years of development, the Reality Distortion Field is now available on iOS apps!