This is part of a pretty disturbing general trend of large corporations using the criminal justice system as if it were an extension of themselves. I honestly don't see how anyone at Cisco who signed off on this sleeps at night.
It's not so much a "trend" as a "tradition". Wherever a formal system of justice exists, it is invariably used to some degree by those in power to do their bidding. After all, it decisions and actions are still those of fallible (and bribable) humans.
It is an extension of themselves. Any process that involves elections in the US is now basically corrupt and open to the highest bidder.
They sleep by telling themselves that the "enemy" is doing it too, and how they wish the world wasn't this way, but being a pussy about it isn't realistic and so why shouldn't I make a living. Same logic that says if I don't shove this Jew on the train, they might be shoving me on it.
