Zoom shuts down Tiananmen Square activist's account after orders from Chinese government

Video conferencing software maker Zoom shut down the account of Chinese activist Zhou Fengsuo at the behest of the Chinese government. The account was closed because Zhou, and other activists, held a digital event commemorating the Tienanmen Square Massacre. The Tienanmen Square protests were a student movement for democratic rights in the country set against mass privatisation and neoliberal globalism enacted by Deng Xiaoping, according to historian and participant in the 1989 protest Wang Hui. Thousands of people were killed and wounded when, in what came to be known as the Tienanmen Square Massacre. Zhou had paid for a Zoom account associated with the U.S. nonprofit Humanitarian China.