Right just because you say so. Why isn’t Apple suing the many sites(some of which are news operations) that carry this “discredited” story? BTW Apple’s suppliers employ thousands of workers that are under 18 in their factories which is also illegal in the US.
Maybe Apple should sue you for retelling the lie??
From YOUR OWN linked article in Quartz:
There are more than 1.5 million workers making products for Apple, and some of them are children.
The company knows this, and it will tell you:In 2013, it audited 451 different facilities in 16 countries, and found 23 people who had been hired when they were younger than 16. Eleven were still underage at the time of the audit. In all of its publicly available audits, from 2006 to 2013, the company has found 349 child laborers.
OK, mad_ashe$$, that's the article you claim proves your claim that thousands of underage workers are making Apple products. Except your "thousands" turns into only 23 at time of hire and just 11 at time of audit. . . and 349 over seven years. Are you using Liberal math? Where are the rest of them???? Are they kept in dungeons? Chained to the walls? Whipped into cells where no one can find them? Forced to use "Looney Tunes" vanishing cream? What? Where are they?
Either produce them or admit you are WRONG, mad_as_he$$, since your own evidence you produced shows you are full of it. . . and overflowing. China is a modern country with very strong child labor laws, but you simply want it to be something different. People will, just like in the USA, try to find ways around those laws.
It is nice to run across journalists who have ethical standards left and know what to do with the facts when they find them.
Maybe next time you Google you should be more careful and find one of your preferred FUD articles that lies about this instead of one that actually researched the facts and published the TRUTH. LOL!