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Where and Why Extraterritoriality Stops: iPads and Pirate Sites

Posted on February 1, 2012, 9:26 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Imagine if we tried tactics akin to those of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act to force Asian electronic factories to adhere to U.S. standards of pay, safety, environmental responsibility and industrial hygiene.

Tags: Apple, Best Buy, child labor, Chinese factories, conflict diamond, consumer electronics, content providers, extraterritoriality, Foxconn, gizmos, iPads, Ira Glass, manufacturing, maquiladoras, Mexican border, migrant farm workers, Mike Daisey, MTV Egypt, PIPA, pirate websites, Protect Intellectual Property Act, Shenzhen, slave labor, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Supplier Responsibility Progress Report, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, This American Life, unions in China, Uzbekistan, Wal-Mart
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