"Equipment and technology from telecommunications firm Nortel is being used by the Chinese Government to monitor its citizens, according to report by a Canadian human rights group. The report - China's Golden Shield , published by Montreal-based Rights & Democracy - acknowledged that most of the world's largest technology companies actively market their wares to the central government and its public security bureaus. Profit over principle. These high-tech thugs do the same in the West. Hey, as long as their quarterlies show a decent growth, who cares if they earn it by narking on their fellow citizens?