Zoom is following China’s orders.

<p>Because activists in China took part in the June 4th remembrance conference and that is illegal in China. Doing business in China means complying with Chinese law.</p><p>The account has since been re-instated.</p><p>This is going to become more and more common, not just with China, but with any foreign jurisdiction, where you "do something". There are plenty of decency laws in the USA that users from more freethinking countries would fall afoul of, likewise a US user in a conference in Germany might land in hot water for pro-National Socialist comments, for example.</p><p>That is the problem, you are sitting in one country, but your virtual presence is in another country, where you break their laws.</p><p>In this case, the users knowingly broke Chinese law by allowing Chinese based users onto the conference. From a US point of view, no bigee, from the Chinese point of view, they broke the law and Zoom, doing business in China had to react.</p><p>We can't just pick and chose which laws we want to obey and if we are acting internationally, we have to obey all of the laws in the countries where we are active.</p>

<blockquote><em><a href="#546048">In reply to Waethorn:</a></em></blockquote><p>German TV has been showing US TV coverage of the looting and rioting… Strange that US media isn't airing its own footage that it is selling abroad.</p>