Free internet and politics. The Zoom platform closed scheduled video events at the request of the Chinese government.
Video conferencing platform Zoom, already under fire for its ties to the Chinese government, reports that recently canceled planned Zoom video events that would have marked the anniversary of her massacre 1989 Tiananmen Square. The suspension was made at the request of Chinese officials. It also suspended the accounts of three activists who took part in the protests.
According to Zoom in a statement today: "In May and early June, the Chinese government was notified of four major public celebrations of June 4 at Zoom, which were posted on social media, including details of the meeting. The Chinese government has informed us that this activity is illegal in China and has asked Zoom to terminate the meetings and the corresponding accounts. "
The company, which saw its platform rise rapidly in popularity and connections during the coronavirus crisis, now says it should not have suspended accounts based in the US and Hong Kong, and not had to interrupt Zoom events for all participants. Instead, he says, he should have been able to exclude only the participation of people living in the country where it was illegal. But he did not have it (!!) and that is why he stopped the events.
We read in the announcement:
Zoom does not currently have the ability to remove specific participants from a meeting or to exclude participants from a specific country from participating in a meeting. Therefore, we have decided to terminate three of the four meetings and to suspend or terminate the hosting accounts associated with the three meetings.
Zoom completes saying that it will no longer leave requests από την Κινεζική κυβέρνηση να επηρεάσουν τους χρήστες της εκτός Κίνας. Ωστόσο, η εταιρεία φαίνεται επίσης, να προσανατολίζεται να δημιουργήσει έναν μηχανισμό λογοκρισίας στα συστήματά της, ο οποίος θα μπορεί να εμποδίσει content which the Chinese government does not want to see, from Zoomers inside China.
Despite the its growing success, Zoom has gone through many waves. Accused of security errors in its passwords, defects planning, privacy risks and other issues. Zoom was released quickly updates and changes, as well as many apologies.
