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Amnesty Calls Shenannigans on MS, Sun, Cisco

Posted by chrisd on from the filtering-is-bad-mkay dept.

ZurichPrague writes "Amnesty International is claiming Microsoft, Sun, Nortel and Cisco, among others, have broken the law by selling filtering technology to China, helping that country implement its censorship. Is Amnesty right? Making the technology is fine, but if we know that it could be used for ill, aren't we bound to not sell to some countries and companies? C/Net has the story here."

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  1. No it doesn't say that by divide+overflow · · Score: 4, Informative


    Nowhere in that C/Net story does anyone accuse those companies of breaking a law. And what law would they be breaking?

  2. Re:Good point by AI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cisco sells routers, firewalls, etc. The chinese government made the concious decision to block various routes in those routers, or sites in the firewalls. Cisco didn't do it for them (at least I don't see where it says they did).

    Cisco did

  3. Re:Of course not. [drifting slightly off topic] by Keith_Beef · · Score: 5, Informative
    how evil Nazis [were] was not discovered until after the war

    Not quite true.

    Leaving aside a discussion as to the definition of evil, the broad lines of the "final solution" were well known from around 1941...

    It was well known from before 1933 that anti-semitic groups were active in Germany, and were on the way to taking political control.

    Read Address Unknown, first published in 1938, set in 1932 - 1934.

    Perhaps many people did not grasp just how enormous the "implementation of the solution" was... Industrial-scale extermination of an entire ethnic group!

    Getting back to the topic, why do you think governments legislate to limit which countries can buy certain technologies?