ABSTRACT
Zoombombing is a complex issue that demands a collaborative counter-response. Zoombombers who wield racist and pornographic speech and images to harm users create dangerous and traumatic spaces for everyone, especially for Black people and women of color. They put enormous effort into using their existing networks and technical ingenuity to find their way past passcodes, waiting rooms, and ended calls; therefore, Zoom and other platforms must work equally hard providing methods to make platforms safer and more forthright about specifically identifying racism as it occurs through their service. The webinar function, beyond being simply unattainable for many, limits what Zoom has to offer in terms of community. In the current pandemic moment, videoconferencing has become our link to work, communication, and long-distance intimacy. Zoom has begun altering the way they speak about zoombombing, from calling it “party-crashing” to gesturing toward the attacks as something harmful.
