An Electronic Frontier Foundation opinion piece argues that Microsoft and Cisco are more interested in abetting China’s repressive regime than taking a stand for freedom.
With Google abandoning the search market in China rather than submit to censorship, Microsoft has recently stepped into the void by agreeing with Baidu to provide Bing web search services in English and to self-censor its search results. After coming under scrutiny for helping create China’s internet firewall and assisting in tracking down the Falun Gong for the Chinese government, Cisco has agreed recently to help build a camera surveillance network in the city of Chongquing. -db
From a commentary for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, July 8, 2011, by Jillian York and Cindy Cohn.