China Dictatorship (中国独裁统治)

26.1.3.5. Western companies that sell censorship technology to dictatorships (向独裁政权出售审查技术的西方公司)

To China:

Oracle
- 2021-02-18 https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surveillance/ "HOW ORACLE SELLS REPRESSION IN CHINA"
Cisco may have knowingly helped to build the Chinese internet censorship infrastructure in the 2000’s
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems#Censorship_in_China
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export
  - https://www.eff.org/files/2016/01/12/113_second_amended_complaint_does_v._cisco_9.18.13.pdf they had a demo with a Falun Gong (法轮功, Qigong new religion/cult) module
- https://www.wired.com/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do/
  - Internal CISCO documents quote the Chinese Government saying: "The Golden Shield Project … Combat Falun Gong evil religion and other hostiles"

To other dictatorships:

2019: IBM https://gizmodo.com/ibm-sells-face-recognition-surveillance-to-a-dictatorsh-1835101881
2017: Amesys France for facial recognition surveillance in Egypt: https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/egypt/sale-of-surveillance-equipment-to-egypt-by-french-company-amesys
2011: Netsweeper Inc. from Canada to UAE
- claim: https://business.financialpost.com/technology/canadian-software-used-to-filter-internet-in-middle-east
2009: Forcepoint, previously Websense
- claims on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcepoint#Censorship

In 2019, the European Union was considering making stricter laws about cyber surveillance exports, to include more Dual-use technology (军民两用技术), so kudos to them:

See also: Western companies that comply with Chinese censorship requests (遵守中国审查要求的西方公司).

Figure 261. Cartoon showing how Amesys systems are used to suppress citizens in Egypt. Do you want the logo of your company to figure there instead? Source.