Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Facebook to Adopt Chinese-Style "Trustworthiness Ratings" of Users" video.

  1. I lived in China for 6 years. And the "suicide nets" talked about by Paul Joseph Watson were on most building being constructed. I lived in Hefei, small city of about 5 million, and 40 story buildings were being built everywhere. Those nets are just to catch debris and tools so they don't fall on people.
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  2. Ummm...they had those nets on buildings in my neighborhood. Nobody worked in the buildings. They were doing the interior work after the structure is erected. They aren't "suicide nets". What a surprise, there are inaccurate stories on Info Wars; in other news it rains a lot in Seattle. They did another story on cell phone towers disguised as trees. There's also nothing unusual about that. It's done just to make it blend into the landscaping. I saw many of those in Hefei also.
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  3. BTW, China doesn't have a high suicide rate. 10/ 100k people, while the US is 14.3/100k.
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  4. LOL The "exclusive" pictures in that article are of what every other assembly plant looks like. The work is "monotonous". LOL Who knew working in a factory was boring and monotonous?
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  5. Just do a google image search "suicide nets". I've seen the same thing in China all the time. It's as common as a scaffolding. They're to prevent debris from falling onto the street. It wouldn't even work as a "suicide net", because it wouldn't catch a person falling more than a couple floors. One can't jump out of a high rise and falling on something that will give the same amount as a mattress.
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  6. OK. Just doing some searches I found out where this "news" came from. Foxconn has 930,000 employees in Shenzhen. The suicide rate in China is 10/100k. So Foxcon would average 93 suicides per year, though it's actually lower than that. In other words, you're less likely to commit suicide at the Foxconn industrial park than as an American, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides. The whole story is based on a false comparison. It's like comparing the crime problem in Belgium with the U.S. and using totals rather than rates.
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  7. Ahhh. Providing evidence is not being disingenuous. But see my other comment. The industrial park in question has a lower suicide rate than the U.S., lower than average worldwide.
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  8. "... Missing the tree for the forest here. " You're actually missing the original point. Does the Foxconn manufacturing plant have a high suicide rate? As I explained in the previous comment, the answer is "no". It's lower than the country average, which is lower than the worldwide average. This story is manufactured the same way the the regressive media will manipulate crime statistics. You've had regressives tell you "There are more whites on welfare than blacks." But that doesn't mean anything because the latter group is 5 times larger than the former.
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  9. Does you're building have suicide nets? Because it probably needs them worse than the Foxconn shenzhen plant. If they had the suicide rate of the US, then there would be 130 suicides per year, when there were 18 reported in 2010, and 3 in 2016. This whole story started by a misunderstanding of frequency versus total.
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  10. Inversion knight Nevertheless, every high rise construction site in China has those nets. It was on the university campus where I worked. It's to prevent construction workers from committing suicide? It would not stop a person from the higher floors. You really should call someone "dishonest" when you're repeating propaganda and denying facts.
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