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'''[[wikipedia:Cisco|Cisco Systems, Inc.]]''' is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=FORM 10-K |url= | '''[[wikipedia:Cisco|Cisco Systems, Inc.]]''' is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=FORM 10-K |url=https://pdf.secdatabase.com/419/0001193125-12-388590.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=9 Apr 2025}}</ref> | ||
Cisco's founders were crucial to many of modern day implementations and protocols of Local Area Network systems we have today. | Cisco's founders were crucial to many of modern day implementations and protocols of Local Area Network systems we have today. | ||
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====Complicit in implementing state-operated internet censorship in the People's Republic of China==== | ====Complicit in implementing state-operated internet censorship in the People's Republic of China==== | ||
According to internal PowerPoint presentations from 2002 that surfaced online, Cisco systems knowingly supplied hardware used in China's ''Golden Shield'' project, informally known as The Great Firewall of China. This is the infrastructure used by the CCP to heavily censor the internet in China for its citizens and to block access to independent information.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bort |first=Julie |date=2011-05-23 |title=Cisco sued over its alleged part in Great Chinese Firewall scandal |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/753194/cisco-subnet-cisco-sued-over-its-alleged-part-in-great-chinese-firewall-scandal.html |access-date=2025-06-06 |website=Networkworld}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Broache |first=Anne |date=2008-05-20 |title=Senators weigh new laws over China online censorship |url= | According to internal PowerPoint presentations from 2002 that surfaced online, Cisco systems knowingly supplied hardware used in China's ''Golden Shield'' project, informally known as The Great Firewall of China. This is the infrastructure used by the CCP to heavily censor the internet in China for its citizens and to block access to independent information.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bort |first=Julie |date=2011-05-23 |title=Cisco sued over its alleged part in Great Chinese Firewall scandal |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/753194/cisco-subnet-cisco-sued-over-its-alleged-part-in-great-chinese-firewall-scandal.html |access-date=2025-06-06 |website=Networkworld}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Broache |first=Anne |date=2008-05-20 |title=Senators weigh new laws over China online censorship |url=https://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9948331-7.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907214313/https://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9948331-7.html |archive-date=2008-09-07}}</ref><!-- The CNet article is down, archive.org only archived a 404 page, but this article from a well-known German tech news website links to it: | ||
https://www.golem.de/0805/59861-3.html | https://www.golem.de/0805/59861-3.html | ||
It would be good to find it archived somewhere since CNet is probably considered more reputable than Networkworld. Or we could maybe link to a Google Translate link for the Golem article. --> | It would be good to find it archived somewhere since CNet is probably considered more reputable than Networkworld. Or we could maybe link to a Google Translate link for the Golem article. --> | ||