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Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China’s Behest – U.S. prosecutors have charged a company executive based in China with conspiring to terminate online meetings about the Tiananmen Square massacre.

TikTok Said to Be Under National Security Review – The review comes after lawmakers raised concerns about TikTok’s growing influence in the United States.

I don’t really have much to say about this. It’s just strange to me that this isn’t a bigger story. Zoom is now huge for professionals. And TikTok seems to be the way that people born in the year 2000 and later prefer to communicate. This isn’t the 20th century anymore. China may not have in-your-face cultural power, but the control of platforms like this matters a lot (I recall in 1995 foreign governments were very worried about backdoors in Windows 95 for the US government placed there by Microsoft).