When contracting with Chinese manufacturers, it's very hard to avoid forced labor

yes, but also black americans tend to be lower socioeconomicstatus (SES), on average. the difference being a white guy can “make it” and leave that behind but a black person can’t change their skin. i’m not in any way shape or form saying racism does not exist.

but there is a big difference between being black, doing a crime, getting harsher treatment, and simply put into a camp because you’re a certain ethnicity minus any real crimes

found a clip of one of those company executives:

i try to do what i can. my phone is rather old, but it continues to get security updates so i keep it. i hesitate for opsec reasons to say the model but i’ve had it longer than you’d expect.

i can’t find a cruelty free phone but i can reduce my consumption to the bare minimum rather than buy a new phone/laptop/pad every year

or because if you have factories in multiple dictatorial regimes rather than just one you can play them all off each other. china has some leverage in that they can gum up production w/ inspections etc. that becomes harder to do with a set of factories in thailand, vietnam, cambodia, etc