[ NNSquad ] Cisco sued for helping China build censorship/persecution regime

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Cisco sued for helping China build censorship/persecution regime
http://bit.ly/mqeWTk  (This message on Google Buzz)

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   "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?  
   'That's not my department!' says Wernher von Braun."
        -- Tom Lehrer


http://j.mp/kBvLIt  (Yahoo News)

    "Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have filed a lawsuit
     against Cisco Systems Inc. accusing it of supplying the Chinese
     government with computer-networking equipment used to spy on and
     persecute dissidents."

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Actions have consequences.  However, not all corporations are
ethically vacuous and willing to sell their stockholders' souls to the
Chinese government.  There's an enormous difference between engaging
with the Chinese people in a positive way -- always an act to be
encouraged -- vs. actively working to enable oppression and worse
through provisioning of advanced technological infrastructure that
one realistically already knows is going to be used as a "boot
to the head" of the population.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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