The trendy video-calling service issued new details on its handling of Chinese government requests related to meetings to commemorate Tiananmen Square protests.
Thursday that its action "fell short," and offered more details about what happened.
But not all of the attendees or hosts were located on the Chinese mainland. So Zoom reinstated the accounts for two hosts based in the U.S. and one in the Hong Kong special administrative region. It also admitted it was wrong to end the meetings entirely, even for users who were not in mainland China, but that it currently lacks technology to block individual users based on geography.
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