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by wyager 3818 days ago
Everything upsets someone.

"Conflict-free" is like "inoffensive". It's impossible to apply for everyone.
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azinman2 3818 days ago
Exactly. Says nothing about the toxicity to get the materials out, the wages paid, whether there were bribes or not, etc etc.

But hey, better than nothing.

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babayega2 3818 days ago
Exactly. Also, I've seen a pictures of minerals being weighted in Kigali, Rwanda. Everyone knows Rwanda hasn't so much minerals ressources, but all those came from Easter DRC [1]. So it says something about the process.

[1]: http://www.pactworld.org/sites/default/files/unconflicted.pd...

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