“A Foxconn worker fell to his death in China, the company which assembles products for Apple said Thursday, following a series of fatalities that sparked concern about conditions at its plants,” AFP reports.
“The 23-year-old, identified only by his surname Xie, fell from his rented apartment in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu on Wednesday, according to a statement released by Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn’s parent company,” AFP reports. “It said the cause of the tragedy was not immediately clear and Chengdu police were still investigating.”
AFP reports, “Taiwan tech giant Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia, has come under the spotlight after suicides and labour unrest at its Chinese plants since 2010.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We read completely through AFP’s article, but found no mention that Foxconn’s suicide rate is actually lower than China’s national average of suicides. That’s right: If you want to lower your suicide risk in China, go to work for Foxconn (just don’t work on the Microsoft shit). Fact. Imagine that.
Still, they did better than DRUDGE REPORT which headlined their link to the exact same story we have above thusly: “Another Worker Commits Suicide at APPLE Factory” which miraculously not only gets the owner of the factory spectacularly wrong, but also labels the tragedy a suicide without any factual basis whatsoever, and all in only seven words! That’s some very efficient incompetence.
Just on principle, Apple ought to sue Drudge’s hat off.
Moral of the story: Don’t believe anything you read until you’ve read everything and then some. Certain know-nothing activists who want, or think they want, certain changes in China will use whatever means necessary, including distortions and outright lies, in order to advance their warped agendas that often times end up hurting the very workers they think they’re “helping.”
As we wrote just last month: Ever notice that the stupidest “activists” are often extremely cloistered in well-to-do parts of the world? These wet-behind-the-ears wannabe-activist bozos with absolutely no sense of perspective and zero idea what “poor” really means would do well to get out and see a bit of the world before opening their pampered pie-holes and/or signing electronic petitions that aren’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
Related articles:
Activists emit more nonsense about wages and working conditions at Foxconn – May 31, 2012
Apple’s reported Foxconn protest not actually about Apple, but about Microsoft – April 28, 2012
Apple supplier Foxconn cuts working hours; workers worry, question why – March 30, 2012
Microsoft Xbox assembly workers threaten suicide in China labor dispute – January 12, 2012
Latest Foxconn suicide brings utterly predictable media coverage – November 5, 2010
Media blows it: Foxconn employees face significantly lower suicide risk – May 28, 2010
Why Foxconn is not really experiencing a ‘Suicide Cluster’ and Apple isn’t to blame – May 17, 2010
They always say Apple. They never mention all the other tech giants that use Foxconn.
You are 100% correct but, if they mentioned any of the others names in the article it wouldn’t even get picked up.
I wonder, are the other companies getting a inferiority complex?
Wikipedia: An inferiority complex, often used to mean low self-esteem, is a feeling of intense insecurity, inferiority or of not measuring up.
haha
…hmm, wonder what happened.
Btw: this is the first time I’ve seen the names of tech companies, besides apple, in aFoxcom related article
“…worker falls to death in China; cause unknown”
Could the cause have been gravity?
More likely it was the impact that caused his death.
The fall didn’t kill this worker. Hitting the ground did.
It’s that last half-inch that’s the problem…ヅ
Even though Apple is their largest and the most famous customer, manufacturing for this company was always a minority of all production that Foxconn does.
So this manner of singling out Apple is yellow press, tabloidish “journalism”.
Apple responsible for someone falling off a building. How ludicrous does that sound?
WHY IS THIS SORRY EVENT LINKED TO APPLE.
So, what do you think they do to the everyday normal news here?
The morning headline for each day is very carefully thought out and massaged to elicit the proper and expected reaction.
Most news media types need to feel the effects of gravity.
The worker who tragically died didn’t even fall at the factory. He fell from his rented apartment. Young Chinese have higher rates of suicide than the general population, so when doing comparisons, one should look at the demographics as well.
Who give a f*ck?!?
I’m sure that mean old Tim Cook probably pushed the guy. You know how Apple is.
The last paragraph of the MDN take actually got me mildly aroused.
It’s why I come here. Good shit, guys.
The fact that he lives in a country ruled by fascist communist dictators that force his wife to have an abortion probably has nothing to do with it.
Just the friendly socialist community policies coming to your US neighborhood soon.
Ohbummer 4 more years, before the ignorant sheep wake up.
You weren’t there and/or don’t know.
Here is a post from a Chinese gadget site about the incident!
http://micgadget.com/27255/foxconn-suicide-in-chengdu-did-authorities-request-witnesses-to-remove-all-evidence/
I heard he was distraught over the lack of new Mac Pro.