On May 20, 7:28=A0am, Hairy Dope <****te...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "IS THE BU****ES 'MEDICINE' LIKE THE CHINESE COMMIES'?"
>
> It's well known that GOOGLE and YAHOO, since forever in cyber time,
> have been enabling the Chinese Commies to thwart and disable their
> citizens' access to the Internet, which as we know conveys news and
> information that definitely would be harmful to the slavemasters' grip
> on power over some 1.3 billion people.
>
> And China -- being a potentially economic GIANT on a par with the U.S.
> -- China cannot be ignored by the Ciscos of the world. =A0Even if it
> means assisting a nation whose history is replete with mass
> extermination of its own people!
They are doing a better job of caring for their people on the
earthquake rescue than our government over Katrina mess. You people
are just repeating lies from the CIA/American government propaganda
lies.
>
> ------------------------------
> "Cisco File Raises Censor****p Concerns
>
> "Do***ent Implies Sup****t for China"
>
> By Glenn Kessler
> Wa****ngton Post Staff Writer
> Tuesday, May 20, 2008; D01
>
> 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 evil cult and other hostile elements," according
> to a translation of a do***ent obtained by congressional
> investigators.
>
> The Cisco presentation will take center stage today at a hearing of
> the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Global Internet Freedom Act,
> which aims to defeat Internet censor****p. The Wa****ngton Post obtained
> a copy of the presentation, the authenticity of which was confirmed by
> Cisco.
>
> Falun Gong is a spiritual movement that has been harshly repressed by
> the Chinese government, which claims the group is engaged in illegal
> activities.
>
> In its PowerPoint presentation, Cisco referred to the Chinese
> government's project to control the Internet, including its use by
> groups such as Falun Gong. After a slide referencing the crackdown on
> Falun Gong, the next slide proclaims: "Cisco Op****tunity: High start-
> point planning, High standard construction, Technical training,
> Security and operation maintenance."
>
> A Cisco spokeswoman said the do***ent was six years old and was
> intended only for internal use by Cisco's Chinese employees, not as a
> marketing tool to entice business from the Chinese government. "The
> inclusion of the statement was not appropriate," said Jennifer Greeson
> Dunn. "It was simply a restatement of the government's objectives. It
> has nothing to do with Cisco's objectivity and Cisco's technologies.
> We are very much for freedom of expression."
>
> Still, Cisco has sold the Chinese Ministry of Public Security what
> Greeson Dunn called "generic routing and switching technologies"
> designed to make the communications infrastructure more efficient. She
> said Cisco has not sold any equipment meant to "identify dissidents or
> hostile elements."
>
> Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel for Cisco,
> will testify at the hearing held by the human rights subcommittee of
> the Senate Judiciary Committee, as will Google and Yahoo executives.
> Lawmakers will seek to determine whether Cisco is just selling off-the-
> shelf technology or is helping China apply that technology to control
> dissent.
>
> A committee staff member, speaking on condition of anonymity because
> the hearing had not yet been held, said that despite Cisco's claims of
> innocence, the presentation "raises troubling questions about what
> they are doing." He noted that Cisco, which provides the hardware that
> governments such as China use for firewalls and surveillance systems,
> has regularly assured lawmakers that it does not know how its products
> are used and does not market products for censor****p. Now, he said,
> "we don't know what the truth is."
>
> The House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed the Global Online
> Freedom Act to curtail the ability of U.S. companies to help foreign
> governments censor the Internet. The bill, which has been endorsed by
> many human rights groups and is squarely aimed at China as host of the
> 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, makes it a crime for U.S. companies
> to turn over personal information on their users if the government
> intends to repress the citizens. But opponents criticize the
> legislation as taking a simplistic approach to a complex international
> issue, putting private companies in the middle of a dispute between
> governments.
>
> Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), who is chairing the hearing, has not
> endorsed the House legislation but is seeking more information for
> possibly proposing his own legislation.
>
> http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR200...
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