In what might possibly be the weirdest thing I’ve seen all weekend, some guy on Facebook<\/a> is calling for a Nintendo 3DS boycott, claiming the company is responsible for “allowing people to die and suffer grave human rights abuses for the sake of video game console production”. <\/p>\n Apparently (allegedly), Nintendo is involved in trading so-called “conflict minerals” – basically, stuff mined in hellholes like the Congo. With a bit of INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISMS, I’ve turned up very little evidence for the claim, aside from a blog entry on conflict mineral activist site, the Enough Project<\/a>, whose own claim has a somewhat unsubstantiated basis. According to the post:<\/p>\n [Nintendo] has been entirely unresponsive to NGO engagement efforts. They did not reply to letters sent by Enough and our coalition partners. They are not a member of the electronics industry corporate responsibility association that has been working on conflict minerals, or the trade associations that have engaged on U.S. legislation.<\/p>\n Uh, so, because Nintendo doesn’t reply to emails, and are not affiliated with any Enough Project-approved association, they’re now actively engaged with the systematic abuse and murder of the third world? Or maybe Ben Wiley just really hates Nintendogs.<\/p>\n In related news, Japan sold out of its entire national 3DS supply on launch day. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Device production responsible for killing people, apparently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}