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Please explain how you are justifying that statement. Zoom is a publicly traded company in the USA, their HQ is in San Jose. The founder lives in the USA etc et

by bwb 7y ago

Please explain how you are justifying that statement. Zoom is a publicly traded company in the USA, their HQ is in San Jose. The founder lives in the USA etc etc. Currently on LinkedIn out of the 1973 employes 1475 are in the USA on LinkedIn. Another site said they have 2532 employees, but even then that means 58% of the team is American.

redis_mlc 7y ago
China passed a law, the National Intelligence Law from 2017, that residents must comply with the govt. But even before that, same deal, since China does not actually follow the rule of law in any meaningful manner. So any resident, or somebody who has family in China, can be coerced. Oh, and stop being a useful idiot of the CCP. "Huawei says it would never hand data to China’s government. Experts say it wouldn’t have a choice" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-data-to-china-government-if-asked-experts.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-da...
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- rvnx 7y ago
  Gitlab (partially) acknowledged the issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555 but most of the conversation is missing: "This comment is currently under review for potential violation of the GitLab Code of Conduct. For more information, please reach out to conduct@gitlab.com." so we'll never know what's the end story there. If someone knows I'm curious. Though personally, I don't think China is more a danger than the US, or any local spying organisation of your choice.
- bwb 7y ago
  Rude, and not good conduct for the etiquette of this community. Instead of backing up your statement you attacked the messenger.
rvnx 7y ago
I think it comes from this: "China-born entrepreneur hit a snag. The U.S. government denied his visa application -- eight times. After two years of rejection, Yuan, 49, finally made it to the U.S. and is now the major shareholder of video conference services firm Zoom Video Communications Inc."
- bwb 7y ago
  So what? My family came from Germany on one side, and Ireland on the other. I do not know what their visa denial rate was but I am happy they persisted :)

by bwb 7y ago

redis_mlc 7y ago

China passed a law, the National Intelligence Law from 2017, that residents must comply with the govt. But even before that, same deal, since China does not actually follow the rule of law in any meaningful manner. So any resident, or somebody who has family in China, can be coerced. Oh, and stop being a useful idiot of the CCP. "Huawei says it would never hand data to China’s government. Experts say it wouldn’t have a choice" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-data-to-china-government-if-asked-experts.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-da...

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rvnx 7y ago
Gitlab (partially) acknowledged the issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555 but most of the conversation is missing: "This comment is currently under review for potential violation of the GitLab Code of Conduct. For more information, please reach out to conduct@gitlab.com." so we'll never know what's the end story there. If someone knows I'm curious. Though personally, I don't think China is more a danger than the US, or any local spying organisation of your choice.
bwb 7y ago
Rude, and not good conduct for the etiquette of this community. Instead of backing up your statement you attacked the messenger.

rvnx 7y ago

I think it comes from this: "China-born entrepreneur hit a snag. The U.S. government denied his visa application -- eight times. After two years of rejection, Yuan, 49, finally made it to the U.S. and is now the major shareholder of video conference services firm Zoom Video Communications Inc."

bwb 7y ago
So what? My family came from Germany on one side, and Ireland on the other. I do not know what their visa denial rate was but I am happy they persisted :)