Zoom’s upcoming feature will let Chinese govt block users involved in illegal activity

Zoom accepts that the Chinese government asked it to censor accounts of pro-democracy Chinese activists based in the US, in the latest blog post. The company has now announced to be working on new blocking features to comply with requests from the Chinese government. The platform was highly criticised for suspending the three user accounts — Lee Cheuk-yan, Wang Dan, and Zhou Fengsuo — based in Hong Kong and the US following China’s request.

“Recent articles in the media about adverse actions we took toward Lee Cheuk-yan, Wang Dan, and Zhou Fengsuo have some calling into question our commitment to being a platform for an open exchange of ideas and conversations. To be clear, their accounts have been reinstated, and going forward, we will have a new process for handling similar situations,” Zoom noted in a blogpost.