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Hard disagree. Until extremely recently Zoom was a mature enterprise video conference solution. It's a B2B product that has suddenly exploded in general consumer usage, and suddenly product and commercial decisions made in that context are at odds with their new market.

They don't sell ads or your personal data, they're not interested in your private life, and their users are their customer. In other words, they lack the nefarious motive of the Facebooks of the world.

They're changing - rapidly - and I believe we can take their efforts to change at face value.



they lack the nefarious motive of the Facebooks of the world

No. It lacks the obvious, commercial nefarious motives of the Facebooks of the world.

As many have pointed out, Zoom is believed to be CCP-controlled at some level. That's as nefarious as it gets.




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