Microsoft and Zoom join Hong Kong data 'pause,' will not process data requests made by Hong Kong authorities 📦

53    08 Jul 2020 01:01 by u/lenn_king

11 comments

20 u/JadeMonkey 08 Jul 2020 01:17
...until the latest wave of attention to the matter dies down, then it's business as usual. That Chinese market money is like crack, and few tech companies seem able to resist it.
6 u/wagesj45 08 Jul 2020 08:20
which seems so dumb. just like crack, doing business with China has some unhealthy long term side effects, like losing all your intellectual property when a state-owned business steals it and the the government just bans your service when they don't need your secrets anymore.
6 u/Pogchampkingv2 08 Jul 2020 04:59
I'm not trusting Zoom on this considering that they routed calls to China.
5 u/Scrotality 08 Jul 2020 03:11
This is absolutely fucked up.
2 u/None 08 Jul 2020 10:14
Why? They are not co-operating with China rn, and that's a good thing because fuck China. They likely won't hold that promise for very long, but I don't see how this is fucked up
2 u/Scrotality 09 Jul 2020 04:10
I have a terrible habit of commenting without reading the article.
3 u/salty69 08 Jul 2020 03:19
The article says that zoom has ties to china. So this latest piece of virtue signaling from them is to make us believe that they are of the free West?
1 u/None 08 Jul 2020 06:07
This is disgusting.
1 u/None 08 Jul 2020 10:22
Some spokesperson for the Chinese government: “Don’t interfere with our affairs!”
1 u/RidingMyKeyboard 08 Jul 2020 19:07
Call me cynical, but I'm always dubious when companies make moves like this in response to the news and current affairs. I can't help but think it's little more than PR-friendly way of pushing a pre-planned strategy. Also, lol... > In a related development, TikTok - which is owned by the Chinese firm Bytedance - has said it plans to exit Hong Kong within days. Then the article goes on to state that *Bytedance* have their own version for their home market - so this move *means nothing*. In fact, **its the opposite of their claim** - its likely unifying their HK service with their CN one. But hey - it helps bury the PR issues they currently have. Their app is shady as fuck; the way it gathers data, takes its configuration from the TikTok servers, runs a small unauthenticated proxy on the device, and adapts its behaviour when investigated... some real scary and sophisticated stuff.
1 u/None 13 Jul 2020 12:22
Nice to see someone with a spine