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The problem is, Zoom censoring activists isn't just something that will anger politicians. Zoom is now the primary platform for on-line university teaching in the US. Whether Zoom cancelled Zhou's and Lee's accounts because it was following the content of their video calls, 1/x https://twitter.com/paulmozur/status/1271046328684916743
or because CCP told them to and it is walking a fine line trying to keep PRC users, Zoom is now directly censoring US users. US universities cannot contract with an entity that censors or potentially censors our faculty or student's content. More seriously, this raises 2/x
more questions about safety of Chinese students even in US, and their families at home. It's not just about whether in-China users can tune into a dissident activity outside of China. It's whether Zoom can keep its millions of university accounts. 3/x
Pressure on Zoom will come from the human rights side; it will come from concerned faculty and students at universities; and it may come from US rt. wing and Trump administration which loves to bash BOTH China and US universities, along with Chinese tech firms. 4/x
This is a really dumb move on Zoom's part, threatening much of the company's remarkable growth over the past months. They are not the only company supplying meeting software. 5/end @zoom_us @KaiserKuo
