What's the escalation theory here mean? The US shut it down to damage a company it doesn't like? And 2-4 hours is meaningful? or China did it? Maybe it was shutdown and used as negotiating leverage and brought back when some agreement was reached?
GoDaddy's involvement really makes me believe that it's a genuine screw up.
Well, Zoom also lied about their encryption (or, perhaps more charitably, described it in a misleading way. nah, they just lied) and was directing traffic through chinese servers with no reason for doing it -- it was occurring when all meeting participants and the company paying for the zoom account were outside China -- besides enabling spying.