Does Apple Have a Role in Political Discussion? (Video)

wsj ^ | 10-20-2015

[Citizen Zed]

Tim Cook: I think that ... the business has the responsibility ... of within the communities that they operate ... to be ... a ... great service ... and then we're global company and so I think we have a responsibility to be of great global service ... and so it as I look it that when we don't ... we don't get into ... the whole ... set of issues that we ... don't bring and expertise or ... for a i am ... or have had some knowledge of or write whoa the things that that we're focused on our the environment which we feel like we have a tremendous expertise ... and we have a tremendous responsibility ... we make a lot of products' what we are ... I we use a lot of the energy we've we've now converted all of our US operations to renewable energy were very proud about ... we are ... using eighty seven percent renewable energy around the world and were working on our supply chain and we're making significant progress with our supply chain ... such that in a these are things ... that ... we should feel and do a sense of responsibility ... and I think we should leave here and on ... human rights is another one ...

[Swordmaker]

My comment was not a “campaign” nor should you have taken it as such if you were not predisposed to be in-the-tank Apple in every case. I explained that to you and you still persist. I’ll just avoid your threads in future. They make no unbiased point for me.

The campaign was not yours but the 2013 article in the Guardian and the China Labor Watch campaign about supposed labor abuses at FoxConn. . . where they have used video's taken at other manufacturers claiming they were taken at FoxConn's plants. These videos have been debunked several times. Michael Daisey's The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was another such campaign where NPR had to delete the files and recant the "Documentary" after it was learned that Daisey had used shills provided by CLW along with bogus "English translations" of what was being said in Chinese, to smear both FoxConn and Apple, when the actual Chinese was saying nothing like what the translations and Daisey were claiming they were saying in English. It took actual Chinese speakers to call foul on those fake presentations. Daisey finally admitted he had not really spoken to underage workers or even ever entered a FoxConn factory. . . but took CLW's word for conditions inside. That is what I mean by "campaigns."

Reposting such campaigns forwards the lies and advances their agenda. . . and leaving them to stand on their own does the same thing.

You are free to ignore my posts as you wish, but when you post a link to one of those propaganda articles, I will respond because I think the truth is important.