> Interestingly, yesterday a Swedish newspaper published a story about conditions for child workers in africa mining minerals that go into the batteries of many car manufacturers. Many manufacturers were called out in the article, but Tesla were singled out in the headline (By far the biggest customer of these minerals so nothing strange in that).
Singling out Tesla is not surprising to me, given the recent labor action.
But this headline just blinds us to the wider issue, as reported by Amnesty International already in 2016 about companies using child labor for battery minerals, including Apple, Samsung, Mercedes, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Vodafone, LG, etc.
> Here is the X post where the journalist posted the link to the newspaper https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260...
> If you follow the twitter link and click the newspaper link (image), you'll be shown the warning, and have been since the post was made yesterday.
I think it is an overreaction to say Twitter is silencing folks here. Not only can you access it, you can also turn off "safe filters", but the Streisand effect probably means more people are actually reading it and adding volume to the issue.
So I don't know that you need to really worry about it!
Singling out Tesla is not surprising to me, given the recent labor action.
But this headline just blinds us to the wider issue, as reported by Amnesty International already in 2016 about companies using child labor for battery minerals, including Apple, Samsung, Mercedes, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Vodafone, LG, etc.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-...
> Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful
Do you have a link to this? I’d love to see