US Zoom “Cuts off meetings related to Tiananmen Incident at the request of China” 16:35, June 12
US IT company Zoom has announced that it has closed the Tiananmen Incident meeting on its video conferencing service and has temporarily suspended the organizer's account. As Zoom demanded that the laws of each country be observed, the Chinese government requested that the meeting be ended as "illegal".
While Zoom in the U.S. provides video conferencing services in more than 80 countries around the world, Western media reported that Zoom temporarily suspended the accounts of organizers of meetings related to the Tiananmen case in China. It was
Regarding this, Zoom confirmed on a statement on 11th, and it was said that it was illegal in China regarding four meetings related to June 4th when the Tiananmen Incident occurred from the Chinese government from May to early June. And revealed that it was requested to close the account.
On the other hand, Zoom says that it is required to comply with the laws of each country in terms of operation, and at three meetings out of four, a large number of participants from mainland China were confirmed, so the meeting was ended, This means that the host's account has been temporarily suspended.
On the other hand, he explained that the remaining one meeting did not hinder the absence of participants from mainland China.
Regarding this response, Zoom was "wrong" because it temporarily suspended the accounts of the organizers in the United States and Hong Kong, and blocked the meeting itself because it did not have the function to block only participants from certain countries. In addition, he hopes that "the government that attempts to separate the people from the world will recognize that they are acting against the rights and national interests of the people."