Posted on 12/18/2005 9:45:58 PM PST by Wiz
It was a disgusting, when Yahoo helped China jail a dissident writer in September. But it wasn't exactly uncommon. Lots of American technology companies have been helping out the autocrats in Beijing, Legal Affairs notes.
Take Cisco. The company "earns $500 million a year in revenues [in China] and holds 60 percent of the Chinese market for routers, switches, and other sophisticated networking gear."
That includes "the watchdog router that prevents Internet users in China from gaining access to banned websites."
And it includes Policenet, which "connects officials of the Public Security Bureau a national agency with local branches that handle security, mmigration, 'social order,' and law enforcement to each other and to electronic records that store a wealth of information on every citizen in China."
(Excerpt) Read more at defensetech.org ...
Cisco ensures the jobs of many, many certified technicians... ;-)
Cisco is crap? What do you use in the way of routers and switches?
wait till the dems pay them enough money to do that for all banned[republican,christian,pro-life websites]websites that dems don't like..replay of nazi germany
Exactly. Routers are a civilian commodity that can be used for good or ill. Asking Cisco to police how its products are used it absurd. If they stopped selling to the Chinese, the Chinese could just as easily get those from elsewhere. Same thing for computers, cars, or guns. High tech military hardware is another matter, however.
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