Cisco Helped Chinese Government Suppress Falun Gong, Lawsuit Claims

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The Huffington Post

The Human Rights Law Foundation has filed a lawsuit against tech company Cisco, alleging that it designed a surveillance system to help the Chinese government track and suppress dissidents.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in San Jose, California, alleges that Cisco helped create the "Golden Shield" surveillance system that enabled the Chinese government monitor and censor the online activities of Falun Gong, a spiritual group, and that as a result, members of Falun Gong were imprisoned, tortured and killed.

The lawsuit claims that over 5,000 Falun Gong members were arrested as a result of the use of "Golden Shield" technology. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, is looking for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and to stop Cisco from further unlawful activity. Cisco has denied the charges.

"Cisco does not operate networks in China or elsewhere, nor does Cisco customize our products in any way that would facilitate censorship or repression," the company said in a statement. A Cisco spokesperson said, "there is no basis for these allegations against Cisco, and we intend to vigorously defend against them."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/cisco-falun-gong-lawsuit_n_865585.html

[Corruption Winz]

1. I seriously doubt these allegations...

I mean, I've never heard of a multi-billion dollar company breaking the law, regardless of what may happen simply to turn a profit at the expense of others.

I mean.... right?

[Octafish]

2. CISCO would never do anything like that here in the United States.

Without retroactive immunity, I mean.

[iamthebandfanman]

3. After they helped

with cameras and networking in public areas in china for surveillance i dropped my cisco networking classes and switched to microsoft...


not that going with one beast is better than the other ... but ... i wont be a part of china being a prison in any sort of way... even if its very very indirect lol