Zoom Was Requested To End Several Meetings of Chinese Activists And It Did!


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Facebook and many social media platforms are restricted in China. Instead, it is using its own platforms such as qq and Weibo. Honestly, there are so many users in China that it could do as it pleases. But for other companies, it’s a huge loss of market. As you understand, it’s also a huge loss of income. In this sense, Zoom was one of those rate services that was not restricted in China. But recently, it fell into an inconvenient story. Under the pressure of the Chinese government, it has suspended the accounts of human rights activists. This caused a huge stir in the US.

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Three activists were holding online events relating to the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary or discussing the crisis in Hong Kong. The Chinese government regularly informed Zoom that it is illegal and required termination of the meeting.

What Did Zoom Respond?

However, the most interesting part is that Zoom agreed and later suspended of those three. ‘We did not provide any user information or meeting content to the Chinese government. We do not have a backdoor that allows someone to enter a meeting without being visible.’

But while Zoom is worrying about ‘backdoors’, there is another thing it should focus on. We mean, Zoom should explain under what law the meetings – which were hosted outside mainland China – were deemed to be illegal. It still remains unclear why Zoom should shut down the accounts of users based in the US and in Hong Kong.

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In this regard, one of the activists Zoom’s response was ‘shameful’ and accused it of ‘political censorship’. Though Zoom has later restored his account, he said ‘Zoom continues to kneel before the Communist party’.

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Another activist said that ‘the Chinese communist party is actively attacking democracy around the world. They have already started to intervene in the social system and way of life in the US. The whole world should be on alert.’ He also added that Zoom’s official statement did not absolve the company from responsibility for infringing on the ‘rights and interests’ of citizens in the US where the company is based.

It seems this is going to have a snowball effect. US representatives Greg Walden and Cathy McMorris Rodgers sent a letter to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan calling on him to clarify his company’s practices. Apart from this, US senator Josh Hawley asked Yuan to ‘pick a side: American principles and free-speech, or short-term global profits and censorship’.

Yaqiu Wang, China researcher for Human Rights Watch said: ‘Laws in China are often abusive and don’t comply with international human rights standards.’

To somehow work out a compromise, Zoom said it had no ability to block participants from particular countries. That’s why it has had to end two of the meetings that had a ‘significant number of mainland China participants’.

But it also added that the company will no longer allow requests from Beijing to impact anyone outside of mainland China.

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2 Comments

  1. Godfree Roberts
    June 15, 2020

    Democracy cannot survive without censorship, as

    Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew explained with his customary clarity, “The Philippines press enjoys all the freedoms of the US system but fails the people: a wildly partisan press helped Philippines politicians flood the marketplace of ideas with junk and confuse and befuddle the people so that they could not see what their vital interests were in a developing country. And, because vital issues like economic growth and equitable distribution were seldom discussed, they were never tackled and the democratic system malfunctioned. Look at Taiwan and South Korea: their free press runs rampant and corruption runs riot. The critic itself is corrupt yet the theory is, if you have a free press, corruption disappears. Now I’m telling you, that’s not true. Freedom of the press, freedom of news critics, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.” A Third World Perspective on the Press. RH Lee Kwan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore. C-SPAN, APRIL 14, 1988

  2. Cyril Dieudonne
    June 16, 2020

    huawei, zoom, same cancer