Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Microsoft
Doing business in a country that jails millions of dissidents
By Judi McLeod Friday, November 16, 2007American companies assisting Chinese government oppression can always fall back on corporate PR to downplay their roles.
When the news hit that Yahoo was settling a legal dispute with the families of two Chinese dissidents, columnists began trying to defend Yahoo by pointing out that the company isn’t the only Judas in the corporate crowd trucking with Communist China.
These columnists wanted to point out that Cisco Systems Inc. helps sends thousands of Chinese dissidents to prison by selling sophisticated Internet surveillance technology to the Peoples’ Republic of China.
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