this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
285 points (97.3% liked)

Technology

61916 readers
2106 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
285
Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
114 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] otto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What evidence can you provide to support this, or is this simply your opinion?

You first

[–] PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that's not how this works.

It’s really not, though. Using their “good product“ ends up supporting the bad person. Most people aren’t OK with that.

You made a statement, not I. Either you have evidence that most aren't OK with that, or you don't.

[–] otto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Do you have amnesia? Because you definitely made a claim without providing evidence.

Not OP, but your smart phone may not have been assembled with child labor, but some of the components/minerals used in its construction have been tied to child labor in the past.

So go on then. Provide that evidence.

Of course, we’re not discussing iPhones of the past. The matter under discussion is specifically the phone I have now. Nice try with that strawman.

So go on. Provide evidence for your claim. And try to do it without any more logical fallacies. Other than the whataboutism that you wrote in here on, by the way.

Edit: trolls get blocked. I’m sure you’ll find some way to blame me for that too.

[–] PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 0 points 4 hours ago

For the record, you are obviously a very negative and angry person. Which Lemmy seems to be a somewhat breeding ground for. I would encourage to spend more time offline.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/18/technology/smartphone-child-labor-cobalt/

And then

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths

And then

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/us-court-absolves-top-tech-companies-congos-child/story?id=107839639

It's important to note that while several large tech companies were found not guilty of knowingly benefiting from child labor, their supply chain still benefitted from child labor; it simply couldn't be proven they had knowledge of what was happening.

Unfortunately, based on your previous response, I do not expect you to respond in a reasonable and mature manner, and have no desire to spend anymore time with someone like yourself. This is where we sort ways. Cheers mate.