{"id":7598,"date":"2010-02-27T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:11:36","slug":"apple-using-child-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/apple-using-child-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple using child labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s Steve Jobs believes in trendy causes like <em>equality <\/em>and <em>fundamental rights<\/em> and, for that reason, donated $100k to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomtomarry.org\/blog\/entry\/voice-for-equality-steve-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">support homosexual marriage in California<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steve Jobs\u2019 company Apple Inc. released a statement in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=19&amp;entry_id=31899\">October 2008 opposing Proposition 8<\/a> and donating $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Said Apple, \u201c[We] strongly believe that a person\u2019s fundamental rights \u2014 including the right to marry \u2014 should not be affected by their sexual orientation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly enough, until the prospect of bad publicity loomed large, Jobs&#8217; enthusiasm for <em>fundamental rights<\/em> did not extend to avoiding the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1254221\/Apple-admits-using-child-labour-build-iPods-iPhones-Chinese-factories.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">child labour<\/a> in the making of iPods and iPhones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Technology giant Apple has admitted that child labour has been employed at some of the factories that build its iPods, computers and mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>An audit found that at least eleven 15-year-old children were found to be working in three factories that supply Apple in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>It said that child workers were now no longer being used at the sites, or were no longer underage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>High-tech piety is no match for profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s Steve Jobs believes in trendy causes like equality and fundamental rights and, for that reason, donated $100k to support homosexual marriage in California: Steve Jobs\u2019 company Apple Inc. released a statement in October 2008 opposing Proposition 8 and donating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/apple-using-child-labour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[2092,2167],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-computers","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}