We've all heard about China's "Great Firewall," where Internet censorship and surveillance is the course du jour. Now it's been revealed that American IT giant Cisco sold routers to the Communist country in order to help government officials monitor Web traffic of its citizens.
An internal Cisco
document has been circulating on the Net, revealing the company's bullet-point suggestions on how to best sell its technology to China.
As a Wired
article stated:
The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression. It reinforces the double-edged role that Americans' technological ingenuity plays in the rest of the world.
The Cisco project, dubbed Golden Shield, wanted to "combat 'Falun Gong' evil religion and other hostiles."
The company went on to sell $100,000 worth of routers to China to be part of the Golden Shield project.
