Q.E.D. Not a penny of Samsung’s profits came from my wallet, just as not a penny of Microsoft’s bankroll came from my wallet. Both company’s products are 100% IGNORABLE.

What annoys me in this whole child labour preaching from the developed world (especially US) is that child labour is perfectly fine at home (see child actors and other child performers), but we climb on to our high horse in an instant when someone mentions 10-year olds sawing together soccer balls in Bangladesh… Much like those Bangladeshi children, child performers more often than not miss out on proper schooling, end up troubled adults (anyone heard of Lindsay Lohan?) and never are given a chance to have proper childhood and adolescence. We may want to be consistent across the board when it comes to child labour; pointing finger at others while doing the same thing is a tad hypocritical, isn’t it?

Are you getting popup ads that obscure the text when you are reading? When I do I just quit the page. If it continues I will quit visiting the sites of those blogs that employ this technique.

You can help stop this practice by doing the same. and complaining. Post a comment here if you think this practice is unacceptable.

In a situation where children must work or go hungry employing children and PAYING them is the right thing to do as long as it not abused.

Most countries don’t have the welfare and the social programs to feed poor or struggling families like the western world has it. Taking a child’s ability to work and feed themselves is criminal.

You have to remember I’m not for employing children however is many situations working is the best options for these kids and/or their families to survive. If they can’t work to feed themselves these children will be left to steal, sell their bodies, or end up being abused by families members, or sold into slavery. Working is the best option they have and is far better than the alternatives they are faced with.

Heck if people would get out and travel the developing world they would see what is the norm for people less fortunate than themselves.

Also remember child labor laws were made not to protect the child, but to protect the jobs for adults.

I don’t know or even care where Apple leans politically and my intention was not to imply either way. They make great products for voters of all parties all over the world.

My overall point was historically in the media if a Republican administration or business was involved — NYT, AP, Wash Post, etc. — would have been all over the story.

And if the past is any guide, the White House press core would be involved, as well.

Unless the story is widely reported in the future as it should be, witness the serial failure of modern day journalism.

Cheers!

—RASTER

So, I don’t expect the NYT will press the present administration to raise awareness or detail corrective action.

No U.S. based Republican profit-taking business in sight either. Easy to understand why they look the other way.

Present day journalism has denigrated to the point of pimping your ideology and scolding those with an alternative view.

Irresponsible journalism aside — what about the children?