These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• Cisco, the Whistle­blower, and the Angry Judge | The Mark

  “British Columbia’s high­est court has accused tech giant Cisco and U.S. offi­cials of a mas­sive abuse of process in order to have a Cisco whistle­blower thrown in jail. B.C. Supreme Court Jus­tice Ronald McK­in­non said Cisco had the “unmit­i­gated gall” to attempt to use Canada’s jus­tice sys­tem, via U.S. offi­cials, to pres­sure for­mer Cisco exec Peter Alfred-​​Adekeye into drop­ping a civil suit against the com­pany. Alfred-​​Adekeye had alleged that Cisco was ille­gally forc­ing cus­tomers into main­te­nance con­tracts. Cisco even­tu­ally set­tled the suit and aban­doned the maintenance-​​contract prac­tice, but not before Alfred-​​Adekeye spent 28 days in a Cana­dian jail. The Alfred-​​Adekeye case has caused out­rage among many com­menters, some of whom have sug­gested it’s a sign that the U.S. is becom­ing a “cor­po­rate police state.” The Mark inter­viewed Mar­i­lyn Sand­ford, who rep­re­sented Alfred-​​Adekeye dur­ing his extra­di­tion proceedings.”
  
  cor­po­ratism whistle­blower dirty-​​tricks felonies-​​committed-​​by-​​nonhumans