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As a european, I'm amazed and deeply irritated that forced labor to this day is part of the US prison system:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/884989263?t=1641920153339

And I'm also irritated that in the US many convicts (not just inmates) lose their right to vote, a human right that in Europe you'd only lose for direct attack to the democracy (like the Jan 6 mob, or voting fraud, and even then only for a limited period of time).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement#Europe


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Well, better never take an Uber ride again either as Saudi Arabia dumped $5 billion into that corporation, didn't it? I see way too many people displaying hypocritical selective outrage over such issues. Starvation and genocide in Yemen is okay with such people, apparently, it's only if China is involved that they get upset? Come on.


I don’t really consider using the services of a public company with thousands of different investors the same thing as directly purchasing the fruits of slave labor. If Uber drivers were slaves themselves, then that would be more comparable to me.


I am only upset at Han scoundrels in China right now, deal with it. The world is broken, we are in triage mode, and your accusations of hypocrisy have no sting.

Bravo Intel for opposing slavery. You are doing more right than wrong these days and I love you for it.




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