Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake

Post by debian3 » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 1:44 PM UTC

yorwba wrote: post #5

creato wrote: post #3

Why doesn't China's firewall block traffic like this?

Because the Great Firewall operates as a blacklist and is only intended to prevent commoners from learning censored information. If Zoom meetings where anyone can join became a popular source of unfiltered news, they'd either ban Zoom or require that a two-class system is set up to prevent ordinary Chinese users from using Zoom to communicate internationally, similarly to how Douyin (within China) and Tiktok (everywh…

Post by madwhitehatter » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 1:57 PM UTC

slondr wrote: post #2

"mistake"

Post by rayvd » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

debian3 wrote: post #11

yorwba wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the Great Firewall operates as a blacklist and is only intended to prevent commoners from learning censored information. If Zoom meetings where anyone can join became a popular source of unfiltered news, they'd either ban Zoom or require that a two-class system is set up to prevent ordinary Chinese users from using Zoom to communicate internationally, similarly to how Douyin (within China) and Tiktok (everywh…

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