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0 pointschvid5y ago0 comments

Something like that.

Plus remember when Zoom was a national security threat? You know with that Chinese guy in charge, the Chinese servers, the censoring on behalf of the CCP ...

Funny how that all disappeared when Zoom got in bed with Oracle.

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abc-xyz5y ago· 2 in thread

Zoom is of course still a national security threat.

sneak5y ago

Nothing Zoom does or does not do threatens the continued existence of the United States in any capacity.

Calling nearly everything on or related to the internet a matter of "national security" is to demand that everything be overblown.

Loughla5y ago

It's the new 'think of the children' argument.

People can't be convinced it's used for child pornography, because that's pretty easy to prove/disprove. So now the boogeyman is national security.

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SpicyLemonZest5y ago

They've signalled pretty significantly that they won't follow the Chinese government's demands, including publicly joining the Hong Kong data pause. I don't mean to fully excuse the initial response (Zoom was always an American company with an American CEO!), but the Oracle partnership isn't the only thing that's changed.

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