![]() ![]() Unfortunately, we’ve learned that this has become a trend for public meetings hosted on chat platforms. After the first 5 minutes of the OBPB meeting, the number of attendees suddenly spiked, host controls were overridden, swastikas were drawn overtop the screen shared agenda, every person in attendance was verbally harassed by name, and a porn website was screen shared. Last night during the Ocean Beach Planning Board’s April meeting, we experienced what is being called a “Zoom Bombing”. Here below is Andrea’s report about the incident to the community, written April 2: This is not the first time a virtual meeting via Zoom has been disrupted with swastikas and porn. ![]() The incident was reported to the San Diego police and Schalgeter has been in contact with the City Attorney’s Office. The number of “attendees” suddenly spiked, Chair Andrea Schalgeter lost host controls, swastikas appeared, a porn website screen appeared and Board members were “verbally harassed by name”, according to Schalgeter.Īs you can imagine, the meeting came to a grinding halt. But after about 5 minutes into the virtual meeting, it was – what’s called “Zoom Bombed”. That sort of thing is always quickly overrun by bad people.On Wednesday night, April 1, the OB Planning Board tried to hold their public meeting via Zoom. If you have a local church or community center you could call, they may have something going on privately that you could request admission to. There are lots of social media options for the type of content you're looking for - they just don't routinely include video chat. ![]() Even now, you still see people publicly post meeting IDs and passwords, inviting jackasses to raid them. This wasn't a rare thing, it was constant. They would play obscene videos, scream racists threats and so on. I say that because you sound like a nice person, but before zoom meeting security was enhanced, meetings were frequently harassed by "zoom bombers," online trolls who looked for online meetings to raid and disrupt. ![]() If there were public zoom meetups, you wouldn't like them. Managing attendance and controlling access are paramount. For example, offices can hold remote conferences, or schools can patch students in from home. It's for structured meetings and designed for security, not openness. No, this isn't how zoom works, I'm afraid. ![]()
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