Two home-improvement retail giants, Home Depot and Lowe’s, and electronic retail superstore Best Buy have recently removed products made by two Chinese companies with ties to human rights abuses in China. Chinese video surveillance technology makers Lorex and Ezviz are both owned by companies headquartered in China that were added to the U.S. trade blacklist in 2019, over Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities. In a 2019 statement, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said that “the U.S. Government and Department of Commerce cannot and will not tolerate the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities within China.” Home Depot told TechCrunch that it was “committed to upholding the highest standards of ethical sourcing and [it] immediately stopped selling products from Lorex when this was brought to [its] attention.” Best Buy also told TechCrunch that it was “discontinuing its relationship” with both Lorex and Ezviz. Lowe’s dropped products from …