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I'm aware of the problems which have gone on at Foxconn and personally I do not wish to purchase products manufactured in that manner. The main problem is that as a consumer it's hard to distinguish between products constructed within reasonable working practices and other products made under conditions analogous to slavery in prison-like dormitories. So I think there needs to be something similar to "fair trade", but for computing gadgets.


There's a Ted talk on fair trade cell phone.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bandi_mbubi_demand_a_fair_trade_cel...




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