From AFP, via Turkishpress.com:
In their quest for profits, Western companies are selling press muzzling equipment to China, censoring their search engines or blog tools and even passing on information that may help reveal the identity of journalists critical of Beijing, media freedom groups say.
Equipment by French group Thales is used to jam foreign radio broadcasts while US firm Cisco’s technology-savvy machinery censors Internet messages and helps Beijing track down Chinese cyber dissidents, according to the groups meeting at a forum on “China’s media meltdown.”
