Zoom Bows To Pressure From Beijing.
Zoom, the now ubiquitous video conferencing platform, censored content viewed as too sensitive by Beijing. (MSNBC.com)
“So in order to justify shutting down legitimate meetings hosted in the U.S., a China-based Zoom executive was running schemes to trigger a violation of Zoom’s terms of service, and a U.S.-based Zoom employee, knowing they were schemes, facilitated it.
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Not alone in trying curry favor with the government of the most populist nation on the planet, Zoom has decided free speech is less important than revenue. The political pressure to promote free speech usually has little to no impact on the business practices of many prominent large tech companies with revenue being of paramount importance. China is simply too large and lucrative of a market with extraordinary growth potential to bow out.
