Samsung Electronics coughs up £55m for cancer-stricken workers About seventy people have died and more than 200 have been diagnosed with cancer at Samsung's displays and chips factories, and having accepted responsibility in May 2014 the tech giant this week announced a 100 billion won (£55m) fund for victims. Workers and campaigners have attributed illnesses such as lymphoma and leukemia …
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In another context, you may well have had a legitimate point about Samsung's poor customer service.
As the first reply to a story about how 70 people have died from (and 200 diagnosed with) cancer, it comes across as borderline insensitive and a self-centred excuse to moan about your smartphone.
Ironically, this not only detracts from a (possibly) valid criticism of Samsung on your part, but it's also quite likely to distract from the fact that Samsung are to blame for the deaths mentioned in the story as anger is abruptly refocused towards the insensitivity of some pillock whining about his bloody smartphone!
In short- counterproductive on both counts. There's a time and a place for everything.
> commissioned a report from Environ International Corp, a Washington DC-based consulting firm which claimed that levels in its factories were safe.
Because traditionally all the environmentalists have been cleaned out of sammie's song?
Or because as American they are free to lie with impunity?
Someone tell me how they could give an AOK even a USAOK without knowing what the chemicals are, that the filters have just been installed and that the boiler suits and sweat hoods are not for people safety.
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@ 1980s_coder; "If you read the article in full, it does not paint a positive picture of Samsung as a company at all."
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No, I certainly *didn't* believe the article to be positive towards Samsung at all, quite the opposite! I think you missed the point I was making.
It was that- following a story which described how Samsung were responsible for 70 deaths and 200 further cases of cancer, any anger felt by readers towards Samsung (as a result of having read that story) would have been abruptly distracted from by the apparent insensitivity of your comment.
FWIW, your comment might not have been meant this way- and may have been perceived differently if your intent had been made more explicit- but it did come across as I described above.
Now that it's being recognised that industrial use of benzene, toluene, chlorinated solvents and chemical waste can cause cancer, perhaps it's time to take another look at possible causes of the leukaemia clusters that Greenpeace and FoE blame on the early nuclear reactors.
The notorious Seascale cluster, for example, was close to two ROFs which produced hundreds of tons of trinitrotoluene a week during the war. Might there have been spills, or carelessly dumped by-products which either leached or were disturbed when the factories were demolished in the '50s and '60s?
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