ToplineZoom canceled a webinar Wednesday featuring Leila Khaled, a member of a Palestinian militant group who took part in two plane hijackings in 1969 and 1970, while YouTube and Facebook intervened to take down the live stream over fears of criminal liability. Leila Khaled was speaking at an event titled “Whose Narratives? Gender, Justice and Resistance,” a ... [+] virtual discussion was organized by SFSU's Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies department. Zoom tries to buck their own responsibility for this decision by claiming they are simply complying with the law, but that’s not true. State event with Leila Khaled, briefly hosted on YouTube, is taken down (J Weekly)Zoom criticised for cancelling webinar with Palestinian activist Leila Khaled (Middle East Eye)

Source: Forbes September 24, 2020 18:11 UTC