Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured
&gt; he saw a foreigner whom he believed to be one of the Amazon staff going through his desk drawer and checking the pockets of his uniform on his chair.
 So an US Amazon employee helped to get this guy and their Familie tortured for two years so that Foxconn could keep using little school children to manufacture Alexa’s working 100h per week?<p>Yikes.<p>And apparently all of this happened after Amazon had to punish Foxconn for using illegal workers, yet the leaked Foxconn internal documents suggest that the amount of illegal worker conditions had to increase to cover up for the punishment.<p>The US should just ban importing any good from countries using child workers, period. It should not be up to Amazon to “slap” their producers on the wrist, but rather the government should impose absurdly high fines on US companies that don’t report this, to ban goods from those countries.<p>In which world is it right to force school children to “work 36+ hours of overtime” to manufacture an Amazon Echo? This whole story is just completely ridiculous.