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Cisco denies helping China suppress online freedom, US gover

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May 21, 2008
        
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WASHINGTON - A Cisco Systems Inc. executive told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that comments in an internal document about China's goal to "combat" a religious group did not reflect the company's views on censorship. The PowerPoint presentation, which described China's technology status, included... [read full story]                    

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Senators grill tech companies on aiding Chinese censorship

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Cisco denies aiding Chinese censorship

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Senators grill tech companies on aiding Chinese censorship

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May 22, 2008
        

By FRANK DAVIES - San Jose Mercury News WASHINGTON -- Cisco, Google and Yahoo vigorously defended their business operations in China, but skeptical senators and human rights advocates told the companies Tuesday they need to do more to protect user privacy and combat censorship around the world....

                   

Rebecca MacKinnon: Cisco saw opportunity in "Golden Shield" to help fight criminals...and dissidents

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May 22, 2008
        

WIRED magazine's "Threat Level" blog has published a Cisco internal presentation from 2002 that makes the company's intentions look pretty darn bad. Leaked to reporters right before Wednesday's Senate hearing on the Internet and human rights (which I will write more about in the next few days),...

                   

The Tale of Cisco: Censorship Is In the Router

citizenlab.org
May 22, 2008
        

“There’s a famous saying, ‘The Internet considers censorship to be damage, and routes around it.’ I say, what if censorship is in the router?” — Seth Finkelstein, (from IEEE Spectrum) At the recent hearing held by Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law on “Global Internet Freedom: Corporate...

                   

Cisco internal memo: Chinese censorship and surveillance are "opportunities"

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May 22, 2008
        

Wired's Threat Level has a leaked Cisco document discussing the great "opportunities" inherent in supplying censorship and surveillance technology to China. The 90-page document is an internal presentation that Cisco engineers and staffers in China mulled over in 2002 as the central government...

Rights Group Says Cisco Helps China Repression

chinaview.wordpress.com
May 22, 2008
        

By Richard Koman, NewsFactor.com, U.S, May 21, 2008- The Global Internet Freedom Consortium showed a Senate subcommittee a PowerPoint presentation of Cisco working with China to control Internet information. Shiyu Zhou of the consortium said Cisco helps run China’s Golden Shield Project, or Great...

                   

Leaked Cisco Document: Chinese Censorship among “Opportunities”

harvard.edu
May 22, 2008
        

As WIRED is reporting, a leaked Cisco presentation (online here) makes clear that, in 2002, Cisco team members saw censorship in China as an opportunity to sell equipment to the state. The presentation, in slide 57, cites what appears to be a Chinese official saying that one of the ...

                   

John Palfrey: Leaked Cisco Document: Chinese Censorship among “Opportunities”

harvard.edu
May 22, 2008
        

As WIRED is reporting, a leaked Cisco presentation (online here) makes clear that, in 2002, Cisco team members saw censorship in China as an opportunity to sell equipment to the state. The presentation, in slide 57, cites what appears to be a Chinese official saying that one of the goals of...

                   
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Cisco, China, and Reality in a Flat World (at Seeking Alpha)

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May 22, 2008
        

by: Kevin Maney posted on: May 22, 2008 | about stocks: CSCO Senators can be such pompous grandstanders. And neither is the fact that Cisco and other U.S. companies make products that other governments use to censor the Internet. Cisco got hounded by a Senate Subcommittee -- particularly Sen....

Rights Group Says Cisco Helps China Repression

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May 22, 2008
        

The Global Internet Freedom Consortium showed a Senate subcommittee a PowerPoint presentation of Cisco working with China to control Internet information. Shiyu Zhou of the consortium said Cisco helps run China's Golden Shield Project, or Great Firewall.

                   

Cisco Appeares Willing to Assist China Internet Censorship, Its Internal File Shows

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May 22, 2008
        

By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer, U.S, Tuesday, May 20, 2008- Cisco Systems, seeking to penetrate the Chinese market, prepared an internal marketing presentation in which it appeared to be willing to assist the Chinese Ministry of Public Security in its goal of “combating Falun Gong...

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