Siemens, Nokia Helped Provide Iran's Censoring Tech

An anonymous reader writes "The Wall Street Journal has an article about Nokia and Siemens selling the censoring technology to Iran's government. Do you believe that the public relations damage to these companies can persuade them from selling this kind of technology to other dictatorial regimes?" I don't believe there will *be* any PR Damage, and that makes me a little sad.

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Re:Hell NO! They'll Probably Use As A Selling Poin

[PopeRatzo]

Of course the US is planning for deep packet inspection.

"Free Market, YAY!!!"

If one of you "free market" ideologues can explain to me what market force would possibly address high-tech sales to tyrants, I'd love to hear it.

Whenever I hear someone from the Right talking about how "free markets" support individual and political liberty, I am just amazed. In fact, the result of any "free market" will always be a corporatocracy or at least a close working relationship between widespread tyrannical governments and the most powerful corporations. They are made for each other. Further (and this is a slightly different issue) Capitalism will always result in some form of slavery.

You won't hear that on the Sunday morning news/talk shows, though.