Dear AoIRers, Three months ago, I inquired on this list about the taking over of proprietary videoconferencing software in academic environment and promised a follow up . I want to thank everyone that answered my queries, on and off list, especially regarding the situation in various national or university environments. I have now published a piece in French [in the The Conversation outlet](https://theconversation.com/debat-peut-on-faire-de-la-science-ouverte-sur-zo...). For those of you who do not read French, I have put [a makeshift translation on my personal website](http://alexandrehocquet.perso.univ-lorraine.fr/zoom.html). Although the examples provided are from the French context, the recent events regarding [Zoom attitude towards what has been described as censorship of an academic conference](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/zoom-deleted-events-cens...) shed light on what my main claim is : Scholars once designed email and mailing lists for their communication needs as open protocols. They are now surrendering their computer-mediated communication tools to proprietary platforms 40 years later. This "absurdist" situation according to one of the academics involved in the Zoom censorship turmoil is a direct consequence of this giving away. If anyone on the list is aware of an anglophone media outlet that would be interested in an English version of that piece, I would be happy to submit it to them, especially in the light of these recent events. -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/alexandre-hocquet https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet ***********************************************