>If Zoom, an American company, really did intentionally close the account of someone living in the US, because the Chinese government asked them to for political reasons, that does sound outrageous.

Most of their devs are from china.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...

>Zoom disclosed in its IPO prospectus last week that most of its product development personnel are based in China

Presumably they don't want to lose their pool of cheap programmers.