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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by anonymousab on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:30AM (#23507055)
> They have absolutely no desire to enforce chinese laws globally.

I do wonder about this. Given how many core product developers they seem to have in China, if the CCP demanded they... 'enforce their values' globally, or else, I don't think they'd be in much of a position to say no.

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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by yorwba on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:48AM (#23507676)
Chinese companies operating mostly in China have refused government requests in the past, because compliance would have been bad for business: https://technode.com/2019/09/19/tencent-alibaba-refuse-to-di...

Of course if the CCP cared more about enforcing the law than about money, nobody could ever say no to them, but fortunately that's not the case, so there's always room to negotiate.

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