I thought it meant something, as they bothered to even pretend there is international law by having one in first place.

this is what i have been dreading, i really dont want china as neighbour. even russia is better

Hopefully with fediverse we will be able to control ourselves if its bad for mental health or not. With corporations we have to beg.

or roll 1d20 and if you get 1-5 its 1, 15-20 is 4 and so on.

True. Though while its horrible for those people, they might be doing more important work than they or us even realize. I also kind of trust moral judgement of oppressed more than oppressor(since they are the ones who do the work). Though i'm definitely not condoning the exploitation of those people.

Its quite awful that this seems to be the best we can hope for regarding this. I doubt google or microsoft are going to give very positive guidance whether its ok for people to suffer if it leads to more money for investors when they do their own labeling.

This is actually quite useful

Yea, some things just can't be avoided. But its still important to even try to make an effort, maybe some day there will be competitor to aws for example. I would also be kind of content with aws if amazon just dropped the webstore and warehouse business, which they might if it stops making money. That might drive them to make stupid decisions with aws and create more room for competitors.

True. I think i mean something different that probably doesn't even have a term for it.

Even smallest things you do can help because they also affect how other people think about it. But yes, you shouldnt worry about things beyond ones control too much.

Sorry, when word "charity" gets mentioned in this context tends to annoy me a lot as sentence "we are not a charity" seems to be like magic word to some that can be used to excuse any shitty behaviour by the company.

Someone should reverse engineer how the data collection itself works, maybe it could be messed with directly

Oh boy! and think of the jobs you create!