Free internet and politics. The Zoom platform closed scheduled video events at the request of the Chinese government.
The Zoom video conferencing platform, already in doubt over its ties to the Chinese government, says it recently cut off scheduled video events at Zoom to mark the anniversary of its 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. "
Η company, which has seen its platform rapidly rise in popularity and connections, according to duration of the coronavirus crisis, he now says he should not have suspended the accounts, which were based in the US and Hong Kong, and should not have stopped Zoom events for all participants. Instead, he says, it should have been able to exclude only people who live in the country where it was illegal. But he didn't have it (!!) and that's 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 exclude participants from a specific country from participating in a meeting. Therefore, we have made the decision to terminate three of the four meetings and suspend or terminate the host accounts associated with the three meetings.
Zoom adds that it will no longer let requests from the Chinese government sway them users of outside China. However, the company also appears to be gearing up to build a censorship mechanism into its systems that will be able to block content that the Chinese government doesn't want to be seen by Zoomers inside China.
Despite the its growing success, Zoom has gone through many waves. Accused of security errors in its passwords, design defects, privacy risks and other themethe. Zoom quickly rolled out updates and changes, as well as many apologies.
