“ As orders for glass iPhone touch screens went up, the factory bosses began to have workers wipe screens with a new and apparently more efficient cleaning agent. But the new formula contained n-hexane, a toxin that causes nerve damage.”
Read on my mac screen… sigh
And yet the same company that enjoys such a sterling, virtuous image in the global press and that’s now making buckets of cash in China is precisely the one singled out by China’s fledgling civil society groups for its alleged indifference to labor rights and environmental enforcement, as well as an apparent tendency toward secrecy and obfuscation. In a nutshell, just as Apple has been consolidating its success in China, it has been acting depressingly like the Chinese Communist Party. (via Red, Delicious, and Rotten - By Christina Larson | Foreign Policy)
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