Zoom Promises To Do Better After Banning Tiananmen Square Protests—Then Builds Tech To Help China’s Censorship 📦

28    12 Jun 2020 23:20 by u/lenn_king

8 comments

5 u/None 13 Jun 2020 00:30
They're worth 70 billion dollars. 70 fucking billion dollars as a shit video conferencing app....
1 u/vwxyz 03 Jul 2020 15:16
Jitsi and Jitsi Meet are open source alternatives, free and not compromised by a nation state hellbent on corporate espionage against the west. Why the fuck aren't companies using this? https://meet.jit.si/
3 u/m0bw6I2WQXEEvx5J 13 Jun 2020 00:44
My God.... Zoom was already bad with security issues and now China....
2 u/salty69 13 Jun 2020 00:44
There were multiple warnings here to not use zoom. In the end, under pressure, I used it on a pc where it worked ok. Then my PC got sick and I found it had malware on it. Now deleted. The whole concept of a group video tool like this is wrong. Because everyone can be seen at once in video it leads to a group think where everybody is unconsciously pressured to agree with whomever is talking.
2 u/itspeeg 13 Jun 2020 07:09
Never used it, crazy how it suddenly exploded though, is it really much different to Skype?
2 u/salty69 13 Jun 2020 08:34
Yes, you can have multiple people (we had 4) on one call, all with video. Would be perfect for distance education - except that china is involved in it somehow.
1 u/NinjaLuigi 20 Jun 2020 16:40
The data goes through China, I heard.
1 u/itspeeg 13 Jun 2020 07:11
The whole promise to 'do better' shit makes me heave. Does anyone buy this shit anymore? All the big tech and media companies with the same ridiculously see through bullshit all the time.