[JayWilmont]

Really? The only two options are that Apple doesn't care or that it is a conspiracy? How about:

3. That most people will look at the situation with the same lenses they look at Apple with. Those that hate Apple will see their internal monitoring cynically as a PR move with little substance, and those that love Apple will be glad to know that it is doing more than the competition and will believe Tim Cook when he says he takes the problems seriously.

Even in the future if conditions improve, Apple lovers will credit Apple, and Apple haters will credit the increased demand for labor or the Chinese government for improving worker conditions.

The reality, like so much of the real world, is a complex grey area that is difficult to analyse just from what you read on the internet.

[tatsuke95]

So, you mock the fact that I have two options, then throw out the generalization that people who believe Apple is at fault are "Apple haters"? That's the only option? Seems reasonable.

But in fact, there are only two options: either there is a labour issue, or there isn't.

I understand how this works. I know that working at Foxconn is better than working in the rice fields, and that this is how economic progress happens. History is filled with it. But that's also my point: history is filled with problems like this.

So, I'm going to challenge the assertion (most often made by westerners) that what has happened at Foxconn is perfectly normal. To make a statement like the OP, that this propaganda needs to stop, is ludicrous. These problems will solve themselves, and conditions will improve, but only if we maintain an open dialogue about the issues, rather then telling everyone that anything negative is propaganda.