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US companies may enforce US law but they're not hiding the fact that they're US companies. Zoom claimed not to be a Chinese company while enforcing Chinese law
by modeless 6y ago
US companies may enforce US law but they're not hiding the fact that they're US companies. Zoom claimed not to be a Chinese company while enforcing Chinese law for US users.
- fossuser 6y agoYeah, but this is the mistake they’re acknowledging with a promise to build out the system to only suppress the mainland China citizens specifically. My point is that this is not acceptable either.
- usaar333 6y agoIt's not really a "mistake". They were aware they lacked functionality to region block meetings and rather than reply to the Chinese government that such a request will not be possible to comply with for x days until feature is developed, they opted to suppress US users. That sets a bad precedent for future ambiguous issues.
- alasdair_ 6y ago>Yeah, but this is the mistake they’re acknowledging Out of interest, did they fix their "mistake" and reinstate the accounts?
- thedudeabides5 6y agoGreat question. Will show where they land. Still waiting to see if China will show NBA games while Daryl Morey remains unfired. https://qz.com/1730643/china-asked-nba-to-fire-daryl-morey-for-hong-kong-tweet/ https://qz.com/1730643/china-asked-nba-to-fire-daryl-morey-f... How long is the west going to pretend it doesn’t see where this pattern of bullying ends...
- silentsea90 6y agoAfaik, they have reinstated the accounts
- hrktb 6y agoIs the Youtube entity dealing with EU users a US company ? Aren’t they based in Ireland for all business and legal purposes for these users ?
- Nightshaxx 6y agoTo some extent there is a per-country copyright block. There are some videos not available in the US but available other places because of copyright claims. It probably has to do with who the copyright holder is.