this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
38 points (100.0% liked)

askchapo

22767 readers
450 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

  1. Posts must ask a question.

  2. If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.

  3. Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.

  4. Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net
quartz242@hexbear.net
replaceable@hexbear.net
VILenin@hexbear.net
EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net
SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net
ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net
InsidiousTrackers@hexbear.net
38
How true is the claim that China uses child labour? (hexbear.net)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

There was a joke on an Aussie comedy show the other night about Temu amd China using Child labour and stealing your data and I had to laugh considering the West was outright caught using Child slaves for chocolate (Nestlé)

How true is the claim that China does it too?

Even if they do, it's still hypocritical for the West to focus on it without addressing that the West used child labour.

By the way the ruling class in the west is trying get rid of child labour laws. Isn't capitalism great? Send the kiddies back to the mines! Who needs a childhood?

Also as for stealing data? Bruh China doesn't need to steal it, they can just buy it from all the US corporations stealing and selling your data.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Kaplya@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It is ILLEGAL to employ children below age 16 in China. Child labor law has been protected by the Constitution of the PRC since 1991 (Decree No. 81 of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China: Regulations on Forbidding the Employment of Child Labour). Meanwhile, several US states have recently repealed child labor law, even allowing children to work until 11pm.

There have been cases of capitalists in China skirting the law and employed teenagers (younger than age 16), but once exposed, the government would impose heavy penalty for the violation.

However, it is a murkier territory when children help their parents running small businesses or doing farm work especially in the rural areas.