You're proving my point. Labor exploitation is all over the place, but people associate it with China for nationalist/xenophobic reasons.

No, I'm pointing out how you misunderstood their comment as an attack on all Chinese industry, when it was criticism of specific firms in a specific sector.

I didn’t take it that way because there was nothing about the criticism specific to one firm. I might be wrong there but that’s how I choose to interpret it.

To me it seems odd that the statement “they have free slave labor” would be considered to be specific to one firm.

“Slave labor” is not a hyperbole or commentary on global wage differentials, or underpaid workers.

It’s legitimately 2 million enslaved Muslims imprisoned, working for $0.

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...

We call so many things now slave labor when real slavery is being discussed people don't even realize it.

Thank you for providing something concrete. The original comment seemed like hyperbole to me, and now I’m leaving here better informed.

I do think this senate report is a little bit butthurt that their own regulations and trade agreements have enabled the business model.

It seems like it would be trivial to block out platforms in violation of US law via pressure by payment networks. That’s where I’m confused at the level of inaction given that this report includes a screenshot of a product page in violation. Visa and Mastercard can get Pornhub to vet their “suppliers” but they can’t do the same for Temu? They don’t even need a court order to do this.