@markwoll 2016 is a pretty late reference - I'm talking in the piece about 2000-2010. But yes, the capabilities were in most hardware, and in that era, the best hardware was US made. There's a big distinction between being able to filter packets and using that capability to surpress political speech. And China was certainly developing their own hard and software dedicated towards different forms of suppression at that point.
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