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» Cisco News » Cisco Photo News Related Topics » Cisco Systems Cisco Needs To Step Up To Reduce Net Censorship, Says Net Freedom ... 21/11/2008 16:11. I recently finished writing a story on Net censorship in Saudi Arabia , as part of a larger package on Ciscos ambitions in the
worlds emerging markets. Throughout the process, my editor
Peter Elstrom and I struggled with how to explain the link, if any,
between what Cisco sells and what the Saudi Arabian government
does. Cisco has always maintained that it just sells the
routersthat what each customer chooses to do with them is
their own business. I have a hard time with this explanation, if
only because Ciscos strategy in emerging markets is all about selling the e-services that make those routers useful. For
example, it has designed a massive 250,000-camera surveillance
system that will likely be deployed in the vast King Abdullah
Economic City that is now under construction in Saudi... // BusinessWeek |