Courthouse News
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Friday revived claims accusing tech giant Cisco of aiding and abetting human rights abuses against the Falun Gong group by the Chinese government, rejecting a lower court’s finding that the plaintiffs hadn’t met their burden under the Alien Tort Statute.
The plaintiffs, consisting of a consortium of Chinese and U.S. citizens, belong to Falun Gong, a Chinese religious group with Buddhist and Taoist influences. The group practices meditation and espouses a nonviolent philosophy that is centered around compassion and truthfulness. The religion has millions of followers.
According to the plaintiffs’ 2011 lawsuit, Cisco Systems developed a surveillance software called Golden Shield and sold it to the Chinese Communist Party. The software was designed specifically to help the Chinese government track down members of Falun Gong, and the plaintiffs say Cisco developed Golden Shield even though it knew the software would be used to commit human rights violations. More
I know Cisco committed human rights abuses on me. Sometime in the early 2000s the telco started using Cisco muxs for T1s. They were absolute garbage of the highest water. Fucking morons, moron engineers, moron architecture, moron, moron, shitbag corksoakers.
IT people should NOT design telephone man shit, under penalty of death.
Amen, Eric!
Cisco used to make some decent stuff … but, like all big Techs, they start out w/ a few good ideas back in the ’90’s & end up hiring Zoomers to fill the positions of the innovators … & we all know Zoomers are anything but innovators
Cisco did make a lot of decent stuff. But they branched out beyond their ability to make decent shit.
We could “get into” any old AT&T, Westell, Litespan, Titan, with an RS cable and a TL1 prompt.
Cisco was special. Cisco was different. Cisco was unmitigated bullshit. And then talk to the Cisco guys and get nothing but scratched heads and an infestation of fleas.
This has nothing to do with the viability of Cisco Systems products. Does it?
That was my market back then. Intel led the parade. “The Gods of The Valley”. They were much more loyal to the Chinese than they were America. Not much has changed. We watched a customer get consumed by the Chinese, one department at a time. Share holders never got a dime.
…they were a friend of mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoVJYvwh8QU
Crisco Kid, Mike Bloomfield
Cisco, aligning with the very cocksuckers that cloned their tech virtually exactly.
My best friend said that they literally used a Cisco instruction manual for all the cloned shit.
Stole everything from NORTEL, MOTOROLA, & other 5G developers.
And WECO, and Bell Labs.