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>“Zoom is committed to supporting the open exchange of ideas and conversations and does not have any policy preventing users from criticizing Zoom,” a spokesper
by aspenmayer 6y ago
>“Zoom is committed to supporting the open exchange of ideas and conversations and does not have any policy preventing users from criticizing Zoom,” a spokesperson for the company said. “Zoom does not monitor events and will only take action if we receive reports about possible violations of our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Community Standards. Similar to the event held by San Francisco State University, we determined that this event was in violation of one or more of these policies and let the host know that they were not permitted to use Zoom for this particular event.”
>However, Zoom did not respond to questions about which specific policy was violated or whether other events have been shut down by the company.
- duxup 6y agoZoom already globally banned users on behalf of China related to Tienanmen, and Zoom just said they had to do it. If that is still a thing I don't know what policy you can count on if there is always a "except when someone tells us to censor it" exception to everything. Granted there are always legal changeless and exceptions to everything, but if Zoom is at the mercy of a simple request from a non free state that there's no way to challenge or push back on ... what do any of those rules mean? How quickly can a topic go from ok to getting you banned?
- criddell 6y ago> Zoom just said they had to do it Is that incorrect? What was their other option?
- gpm 6y agoExit china?
- yorwba 6y agoWhich country would give them a few thousand visas for their employees in China to exit together with their families?
- gpm 6y agoThey'd be extremely unlikely to be able to take their entire engineering team with them. That's an example of why doing business with this company is problematic, but it doesn't change the fact that that is the other option when China demands you censor something.
- duxup 6y agoAgreed. The local engineers would obviously have all sorts of considerations if they really were defying the wishes of their local government.
- criddell 6y agoWhy would they be allowed to exit China? The government has a stake AFAIK and so they have a say in the matter. If Google or Facebook received an order to take something down from the US government and they decided not to do it, Would leaving the US be a realistic option?
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