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Well, blogspot still seems to be blocked here, so if anybody knows of another place that will host a free weblog let me know. Since I can still post I want to shame these fucking american comanies that have helped China with their blocking technology. If I ever meet the CEOs of any of these companies I promise you I will punch them in the face.
“So how has China�s Internet lockdown come to be so effective, so fast? �There�s no way they could have done this without Western help,� says Baranowski, back in his Toronto apartment. �Even now, they need Western help to keep up their firewall. They simply don�t have enough people and the technology they need to do this.� In a report issued last month, Amnesty International singled out Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Cisco and Websense as U.S. corporations that are increasingly selling filtering hardware and software, among other products, to Chinese authorities. Eric Gutmann, a visiting fellow at the Project for the New American Century, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank, claims that Chinese engineers familiar with Cisco�s operations told him that the U.S. company had �gone out of its way� to adapt its routers and firewall technology for China. �Cisco knew exactly what their equipment was going to be used for,� insists Gutmann. Terry Alberstein, Cisco�s head of Asian public relations, denies that the company tailors its products for the China market, adding, �If the government of China wants to monitor the Internet, that�s their business. We are basically politically neutral.�”
fuckers