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To: M Kehoe; SeekAndFind
Did the article mention slave labor or forced labor?

How about military applications the CCP gains from Apple?

Again, there hasn’t been mass forced labor in China for about 25 to 30 years. That occurred during the reign of Mao, when the communists emptied the farming villages of young people to populate the factory cities to build their military equipment, then reversed when they had to force people into the fields from the factory cities to till, plant and harvest when there was no one to plant and farm. Typical failure of a “planned” economy that has no idea how to run an economy. Stop living in the past.

The workers in China today are employed and hired for wages and apply for jobs like those in the west. They are educated and skilled, paid good wages for the economic conditions in China. Factory workers earn the equivalent of a low-middle income wage which enables them to rent or buy an apartment in the nearby city. They can, if they choose, rent a space in the factory dormitory, and eat meals in a factory cafeteria, and some do, because they are sending a portion of their wages home to support an extended family.

In 2013, a group of about 250 workers at a non-FoxConn plant went on strike and went up to the roof and faux threatened to jump, demonstrating because they were not being given enough opportunity for overtime! They wanted more than the 20 hours per week and 60 hours per month they could take under the current contract they were working under. They were not under an Apple contract that restricted overtime even more, but paid better. I believe they were making HP computer cases at that plant. An agreement was reached with management that allowed more overtime on a rotating basis. When have you heard of workers striking for more overtime, especially when overtime just pays regular hourly rates???

162 posted on 09/07/2020 2:23:18 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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As for the military gains from Apple, and indeed all American tech, there’s probably no doubt about the fact they’ve stolen us blind. Some covertly and much overtly. They required Microsoft to turn over all of the code for Microsoft Windows and Office including the proprietary code to do business in China. They tried that with Apple and Apple refused. They tried again to see the security code of iOS and even stopped all marketing of all Apple mobile devices for several weeks unless Apple would let them have it, they still refused. China relented with just an overview of how it worked. No code.

Apple did have to comply with the law in China by transferring all Chinese iCloud accounts to servers under the control of the Chinese government. . . and to keeping the encryption key to those files inside the borders of China. So the key is kept at Apple’s China headquarters, still controlled by Apple.

164 posted on 09/07/2020 2:33:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot1)
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