Zoom and ban: pressures confirmed from China
Zoom bans to activists at Beijing's request With an intervention published on the pages of the official blog, the team at the work on Zoom explains what happened, admitting his faults and declaring without resorting to words that he made two errors:
suspended or eliminated three accounts of the organizers, one from Hong Kong and two from the United States, restoring them in a second moment; stopped meetings instead of blocking participants based on the state in which they reside. Regarding the latter measure, initially not disclosed, the platform admits that it is not currently able for technical reasons to block the participants of a meeting on the basis of their geographical origin.
We should have foreseen this need. Although there would have been significant repercussions, we could have kept the meetings active.
Zoom says that it received requests to block the commemorations from the Beijing authorities in early June. In today's statement, the will to adjust the shot.
From now on, Zoom will not allow requests from the Chinese government to impact someone outside China.
Among those not satisfied with the mea culpa, even Wang Dan, one of the organizers affected by the temporary ban, in 1989, among the students occurred in Tiananmen square .
Zoom has to do with the demands of China, can not get by simply with a press release. We will continue to use legal and public discussions to ask Zoom to take responsibility for their failures.
The service has pointed out that you have not sold the information to China, nor to the reality third.
Source: Zoom
