[7042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bay Networks in bed with commie censors?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Green)
Wed Jan 15 18:42:49 1997
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:05:56 PST."
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:40:43 -0600
From: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:05:56 -0800, avg@pluris.com writes:
>
>THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION. IT SHOULD NOT BE
>INTERPRETED AS A POSITION OR A STATEMENT OF MY
>EMPLOYER.
>
>
>Ok, it looks like Bay Networks made a sweet deal with
>Chinese commies. Essentially, they will provide
>technology for the state propaganda network and
>censored Internet.
>
>Their "partnership" with censors of a communist regime
>is repugnant. Using the modern technology to build a
>giant brainwashing machine is very scary.
>
>Some companies will do anything for a buck, though.
>
>How about boycotting their products in U.S. and other
>democratic countries?
YEAH! YEAH! That'll teach em! Don't sell to a customer because of
what they do with the network. I guess I should stop selling routers to
certain schools because they filter Usenet groups. CENSORSHIP! And
you know, the US Military buys a lot of Bay switches and Cisco routers,
so I guess we should boycott both vendors because they use weapons of mass
destruction. And I heard Cabletron has a deal with the Devil.
Here, let me buy you a clue.
-Jon
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