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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by jackson1442 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:42AM (#23507647)
> For example, I don't think that YouTube will allow you to post a blatantly copyright-infringing video, even if your account declares a country that doesn't enforce US copyright laws

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the data held to US law if it's stored in the US? I'm pretty sure the federal government wouldn't take kindly to me storing petabytes of copyrighted works in the US, regardless of whether my clients are in Chicago, South Africa, or Taiwan.

Zoom's datacenters are theoretically in the US, therefore the regulations US consumers should be held to are US regulations. If they want to play the "we follow local laws" card, they could have restricted the meeting in China only.

For the record, I think what the CCP is doing here is reprehensible, but I'm just trying to add my perspective on this specific issue.

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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by paranoidrobot on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:24AM (#23507845)
It's definitely a US law applies everywhere thing for US based companies.

Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft apply DMCA takedown requests to servers hosted physically outside of the US.

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Re:Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at Chi... by iforgotpassword on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:07AM (#23507759)
Googles Servers aren't exclusively located in the US.
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