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Comment by kalleboo | Hacker News Reader

I would love to see if they could find a multinational company WITHOUT issues like this in their supply chain - I imagine none exist.

(I still support "exposé" programs like this since people need to be reminded what the actual cost of their toys are - but they should cast a broader net)

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I don't know why "everyone is doing it" somehow mitigates the problem.

Because they blame one company. From what I've read Apple has done more than anyone else to improve the situation and yet they're the ones that constantly receive blame. Do a report on the supply chain as a whole and how the entire tech industry has workers that are being exploited. They select one company (a popular one) because it'll generate more clicks regardless of the fact that it makes the reporting slightly biased.

They don't blame one company. They did an expose of one company. And one of the companies with arguably the most popular product.

The company who's also arguably doing the most to improve the situation. If the journalist actually cared about what was going on they would expose all offenders and highlight the worst, not expose the one who's already been exposed by several other journalists and is working to improve the situation.

My heart bleeds for the plight of Apple.

It absolutely doesn't, which is why I put in that disclaimer. But focusing on one company will just make people say "well Apple products are made with slave labor, so I'll buy a Samsung instead" when the Samsung stuff is made in the same factory with the same raw materials, and it solves nothing.

Apple is the biggest to it must be taken down first. I prefer focused attack on apple than watered down on many fronts.

Apple is the biggest what? They certainly don't make the most anything. Oh, you mean the most headline grabbing.

Biggest by market capitalization.

Which large companies take supply chain auditing as seriously as Apple?

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