{"id":25617,"date":"2011-08-16T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25617"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:19:38","slug":"united-states-cisco-sued-by-chinese-political-prisoners-over-web-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25617","title":{"rendered":"United States: Cisco sued by Chinese political prisoners over web monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology giant <a title=\"Cisco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cisco<\/a> is being <a title=\"The Next Web - Cisco sued by Chinese political prisoners for \u201cassisting government monitoring\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/asia\/2011\/08\/16\/cisco-sued-by-chinese-political-prisoners-for-assisting-government-monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\">sued<\/a> by <a title=\"Index on Censorship - China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese<\/a> political prisoners for allegedly providing the technology and expertise used by the Chinese Communist Party to monitor, censor and suppress the country&#8217;s citizens. Cisco, while rejecting the allegations as baseless, had publicly stated that it helped the CCP build its Golden Shield and Policenet web monitoring systems, commonly referred to as the Great Firewall of China. The\u00a0case has been brought by US law firm Ward &amp; Ward on behalf of several dissidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology giant Cisco is being sued by Chinese political prisoners for allegedly providing the technology and expertise used by the Chinese Communist Party to monitor, censor and suppress the country&#8217;s citizens. Cisco, while rejecting the allegations as baseless, had publicly stated that it helped the CCP build its Golden Shield and Policenet web monitoring systems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[103,7364,3537,41,722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25627,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25617\/revisions\/25627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}