Zoom admits to shutting down activist accounts at the request of the Chinese government

[Eugene]

Related: Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist “to comply with local law” (Axios)

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Source: TechCrunch

Zoom admits to shutting down activist accounts at the request of the Chinese government

Jonathan Shieber@jshieber / 7:28 pm EDT•June 11, 2020

Zoom, the wildly successful video chat service that has been a ubiquitous feature of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, said that it shut down three accounts at the request of the Chinese government for holding memorials for the victims of China’s violent suppression of peaceful protests at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

As Axios first reported, the accounts of Lee Cheuk-Yan, Wang Dan and Zhou Fengsuo were closed down by the video communication service for planning and holding vigils and events to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

According to Zoom’s own timeline, the company was notified by the Chinese government about four large, June 4th commemoration meetings that were being publicized on social media. The Chinese government demanded that Zoom terminate the meetings and host accounts. Responding to the Chinese government’s request Zoom determined that three of the four events included participants from mainland China and were distributing information or discussing events that were illegal under Chinese law.

Zoom shut down those meetings.

The company also suspended the host accounts, which were located in Hong Kong and the U.S.

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Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/zoom-admits-to-shutting-down-activist-accounts-at-the-request-of-the-chinese-government/

[bobbieinok]

1. We need this info. We need to know how China controls it's people. And uses Western companies to do

[ItsjustMe]

2. The founder of Zoom

Was born In China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan