Video Platform Zoom is Working on A System To Block Users Based on Geographical Location
Video platform Zoom is working on a system to block users based on geographical location. The function should provide an answer to this round of commemoration of the Tienanmen massacre.
Zoom then closed the accounts of three American activists at the request of the Chinese government.
The Chinese dissidents, who live in the US and Hong Kong, wanted to hold a conference to commemorate the anniversary of the Tienanmen massacre.
Participants in that conference also included people who called in from China themselves.
According to The Humanitarian Group, one of the blocked accounts, the meeting was halted to follow “local laws.”
Zoom says it wouldn’t have shut down meetings if it could block participants based on geographic location.
People outside China can talk about Tienanmen like that; the reasoning goes, and Chinese censorship would only apply within the country itself.
In the Tienanmen massacre, 31 years ago, the Chinese government cracked down on protesters who campaigned for greater democracy in the eponymous square. Tienanmen memorials are usually held on June 4.
The subject is considered a taboo in China.
