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It's not just tech companies. The whole shielding responsibility via contractors is basically the name of the game for any large corporation. One quick example is chicken farming.

This article was about a lawsuit about chicken waste in 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

The relevant quote from the article is a statement from Perdue Chicken "Perdue owns no factory farms," the company said. "Families that raise poultry for Perdue are independent farmers."

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It's even better. Perdue doesn't own farms, but they own chickens that independent farmers grow for them.

John Oliver had a segment about this last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9wHzt6gBgI