OTOH, it IS AFP, so it could be another case of:
Posted on 05/23/2011 1:49:46 PM PDT by Still Thinking
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Falungong members are suing Cisco Systems for custom-building "Golden Shield" Internet technology used by China to track down devotees of the spiritual movement.
Cisco dismissed the case Monday as being without basis and vowed to "vigorously defend" itself.
Cisco "designed, supplied and helped maintain a censorship and surveillance network known as Golden Shield" used by Chinese officials to identify Falungong practitioners who were detained, tortured and sometimes killed, a lawyer for the group said in court documents filed last week.
Cisco established a China Network Technology Corp. subsidiary in Beijing in 1998 that went to work on Golden Shield, referred to internally as "Policenet," according to the suit.
"Cisco's specific intent to meet the requirements of the Chinese Communist Party's purpose to identify, track and thereby abuse and eliminate Falungong practitioners... was expressed in marketing presentations," court papers charge.
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OTOH, it IS AFP, so it could be another case of:
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