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A comment on Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses. Parent comment

Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by sitkack on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @04:57PM (#11530353)
Doesn't it? It is just transparent and the traffic shaping is self enforced.
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Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by tptacek on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @04:58PM (#11530358)
No, it doesn't.
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Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by peteretep on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @09:14PM (#11531666)
I sincerely thank you for pushing back on all the crap in this particular thread. HN seems to have devolved in to "well the world SHOULD work the way I want it to" recently, and you're doing sterling work here being the voice of reason.
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Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by manicdee on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @08:01PM (#11531431)
You ate correct of course. Five eyes is not a firewall. Tapping into fibre optics, spying on civilian satellite communications, and keeping tabs on everyone's phone calls, emails and web browsing s not a firewall either.

But it is an invalid comparison snce it isn't the GFW that is gettng people killed, it's the packet inspection and traffic monitoring.

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Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by djrogers on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @06:59PM (#11531154)
That's not a firewall any more than a river is a damn.
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