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Re:Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human R... by fixermark on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @10:49PM (#10892212)
I dunno. People still do business with IBM, and they worked with the German government on the census system that tracked victims of the holocaust during WWII.

IBM's existant history didn't put Cisco off of doing business with China.

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Re:Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human R... by csours on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:40PM (#10892353)
IBM kind of claims that their subsidiary was more or less nationalized during the Nazi period. [1] However squishy and self-serving that claim is, Cisco doesn't even have that defense. War and human rights were going through a discovery period from WWI through the 1970's. In the 2000's there's not really an excuse for not scrutinizing what your products will be used for around the world.
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Re:Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human R... by csours on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:59AM (#10892727)
1. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/1388.wss

(too late to edit original comment, just realized I missed the link)

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Re:Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human R... by cmurf on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:55PM (#10892390)
IBM did that work before the 1980 Filartiga v. Pena-Irala case, which is what enables the remedy being sought in this case. In the former case, those injuries are a part of history, whereas in the latter case they are on-going so it's also a question of standing.
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