ADLee Cheuk-yan, a union leader and Labour Party figure in Hong Kong, said a Zoom account he used to host talks was shut down without explanation on May 22 just 30 minutes before he was scheduled to stream a talk by Jimmy Sham, a leading Hong Kong pro-democracy activist. The talk, which had been promoted in Hong Kong protest circles, went ahead and was streamed on YouTube and Facebook without incident, Lee said, but his Zoom account remains disabled. And on June 3, a separate Tiananmen commemoration was severed after the Zoom account that hosted it was deactivated midstream. ADAD“Like any global company, Zoom must comply with laws in the countries where we operate,” a company spokesman said. The mainland China version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, for instance, returns no relevant results for the Tiananmen incident.

Source: Washington Post June 11, 2020 05:40 UTC