[babesh]

Trump is signaling that Microsoft is his lackey and Microsoft is signaling in the affirmative. That cloud business from the Defense department sure is lucrative.

[chvid]

Something like that.

Plus remember when Zoom was a national security threat? You know with that Chinese guy in charge, the Chinese servers, the censoring on behalf of the CCP ...

Funny how that all disappeared when Zoom got in bed with Oracle.

[SpicyLemonZest]

They've signalled pretty significantly that they won't follow the Chinese government's demands, including publicly joining the Hong Kong data pause. I don't mean to fully excuse the initial response (Zoom was always an American company with an American CEO!), but the Oracle partnership isn't the only thing that's changed.

[abc-xyz]

Zoom is of course still a national security threat.

[sneak]

Nothing Zoom does or does not do threatens the continued existence of the United States in any capacity.

Calling nearly everything on or related to the internet a matter of "national security" is to demand that everything be overblown.

[Loughla]

It's the new 'think of the children' argument.

People can't be convinced it's used for child pornography, because that's pretty easy to prove/disprove. So now the boogeyman is national security.

[thephyber]

"National Security" has always been the ultimate unfalsifiable accusation.

Only those who have access to the underlying classified information can legitimately make the argument. Those who don't have the same access must trust those who do.

The system breaks down quickly when the former group gets everyone into a war because they failed to vet the underlying intelligence or purposefully misconstrued the intelligence or they just moved the goalposts of "national security" to include preemption.