Raising speech fears, Zoom briefly shuts account over Tiananmen

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Raising speech fears, Zoom briefly shuts account over Tiananmen
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Zoom said on Wednesday (June 10) that it had temporarily shut down a US account of activists who met to mark the anniversary of China's crackdown in Tiananmen Square, raising alarm over free speech on the fast-growing video-meeting service.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WASHINGTON - Zoom said on Wednesday that it had temporarily shut down a US account of activists who met to mark the anniversary of China's crackdown in Tiananmen Square, raising alarm over free speech on the fast-growing video-meeting service.

"When a meeting is held across different countries, the participants within those countries are required to comply with their respective local laws. "If so, Zoom is complicit in erasing the memories of the Tiananmen Massacre in collaboration with an authoritarian government," Humanitarian China said in a statement.

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