Comments on: Cisco saw opportunity in "Golden Shield" to help fight criminals…and dissidents http://www.chinamediablog.com/2008/05/23/9660/ 中国媒体博克 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:51:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Terry Alberstein http://www.chinamediablog.com/2008/05/23/9660/comment-page-1/#comment-22807 Terry Alberstein Fri, 23 May 2008 19:00:48 +0000 http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2008/05/cisco-saw-oppor.html#comment-22807 Cisco has in fact, been very clear from day one about our sales and equipment in China. Namely, it is the same equipment that we sell worldwide and we make no modifications for any market. That’s worth repeating: we make no modification for any market and we have not tailored our equipment for the purposes of censorship, ever. Although that might not make for a compelling blog entry, that is the truth. As to the internal PowerPoint presentation that quotes the objectives of one Chinese official, we regret that it happened. Our General Counsel testified before Congress this week and was asked about this and said he was "appalled" and that it did NOT represent Cisco policy. If you would like to read more about what we do and do not do in China, please read his blog entry of this week here: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/general_counsel_mark_chandler_testifies_before_congress/ Cisco has in fact, been very clear from day one about our sales and equipment in China. Namely, it is the same equipment that we sell worldwide and we make no modifications for any market. That’s worth repeating: we make no modification for any market and we have not tailored our equipment for the purposes of censorship, ever. Although that might not make for a compelling blog entry, that is the truth.

As to the internal PowerPoint presentation that quotes the objectives of one Chinese official, we regret that it happened. Our General Counsel testified before Congress this week and was asked about this and said he was "appalled" and that it did NOT represent Cisco policy. If you would like to read more about what we do and do not do in China, please read his blog entry of this week here: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/general_counsel_mark_chandler_testifies_before_congress/

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