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There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag. And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it. Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.
Or a few people with multiple accounts.
How come a link to REUTERS article, with the exact headline is flagged?
There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag. And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it. Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.
If the companies don’t stop buying cottons there, we can stop buying clothes from those companies. I always try to buy products from the companies that respect their workers and environment.
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There is only one way to flag an article here. For a lot of people to click flag. And given this happening 7:00 San Jose time, I doubt any of mods would be logging into their mod account first thing in the morning to manually flag it. Still telling. Tech industry has a lot of communists.
But why is it still flagged 4 hours later? The HN mods can and do turn off user flags on important stories. Edit: why is this being downvoted? You've never seen dang turn off flags? He admits it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510075 So that raises the question: why not turn off flags on this story?
Vaguely related, in that it involves harvesting cotton in Asia: Turkmenistan uses "forced labour" for the cotton harvest. As I understand it, they need a huge number of people for 2-3 months, so people get drafted in. From the point of view of human rights I suppose it's no worse than a compulsory military service. (Or am I missing something?) Nevertheless, many people would prefer not to buy that cotton or clothes m…
It's Uzbekistan not Turkmenistan, no? Unless they are both at it.
Thats not picked by machines ?
Almost all north XJ cotton is picked mechanically, around 70% of XJ output. Why? Because XJ gdp / labour cost increased so much that labour is increasingly uncompetitive. Hence 4000% increase in orders of John Deere cotton picking machines, followed by US sanctions on John Deere to make sure XJ relies on manual labour so US/Zenz can keep driving the slave labour narrative. The 30% in South XJ is still hand picked, mu…