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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by Lio on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:39AM (#23507634)
There is an argument that where China is blocking market access, the West should reciprocate.

If Zoom is a Chinese company with just a registered US office as has been suggested, then it would appear to be an attempt to circumvent that.

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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by BiteCode_dev on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:53AM (#23507696)
> There is an argument that where China is blocking market access, the West should reciprocate.

Faire point. But what I'm expecting that we already do it: we probably ask for modifications in their software as well, it's not not something we talk about.

> If Zoom is a Chinese company with just a registered US office as has been suggested, then it would appear to be an attempt to circumvent that.

I would think it's more of a PR move. WeChat has such a reputation it would never make it into the west.

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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by totony on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:08AM (#23507766)
>There is an argument that where China is blocking market access, the West should reciprocate.

I'm not sure following local laws is considered as protectionism if the same standard is applied to local companies. Blocking market access would be applying unequal standards depending on origin (which I don't allege that they don't do - but for this particular case it doesn't look like they do).

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