Another fun aspect of Zoom mass adoption (and gov contracts) is that they were guilty of profiting off of child pornography long before the pandemic even happened. Mass adoption never seems to happen until the feds investigate a platform for sex crimes or money laundering.


Zoom Outted as tool for pedophiles in 2019:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=6190290AAB29EB7C234B00F642FE01FF&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL


Here's an article a year later in the times about a "surge in sexual images of children on the incident" with no mentions of Zoom.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/online-child-sexual-abuse.html


And another article that describes the "FBI trying to crackdown on child pornography on Zoom calls" without any of the blame falling on the platform itself. The feds literally found them guilty of distributing child pron a year earlier but they have liability shields so I guess they're allowed to be pedophiles.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-disturbing-number-of-zoom-bombings-include-child-porn-images