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Article

18 Jan 2007

Author:
Tom Zeller, The Lede, New York Times

Tech Companies Get Serious About Global Rights Issues. But Where’s Cisco?

...[C]ivil rights groups have nudged some technology companies into a dialogue over how to avoid stomping on human rights, freedom of speech, privacy and other concepts that aren’t considered quite so precious in some countries where the Western companies are aggressively doing business....[The participants are] a wide mix of digital rights groups...traditional human rights and advocacy organizations like Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders and others; and of course, technology companies like Yahoo, Microsoft and Google...Conspicuously missing, however, is Cisco, China’s largest U.S. supplier of networking hardware, the company whose equipment forms the backbone of China’s Internet...When we asked Mr. Palfrey of Harvard’s Berkman Center why Cisco was missing from the list, he simply replied: “Ask Cisco.”...We’ll do that, and keep you posted...

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