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As the moderator, you can—and should—kick people out of chats if they're not acting foolish. (Zoom/)There’s a good chance you hadn’t heard of Zoom when 2020 started. Unless you regularly participate in business-focused video chats, the enterprise-oriented tool wasn’t part of your regular routine. Then came COVID-19 and social distancing, of course, making video chat the closest option many people have for responsible face-to-face interaction. Suddenly, Zoom’s typical uses—earnings reports, powerpoint slides—started living alongside online happy hours and remote board game sessions. This week, in a blog post, the company’s CEO and founder, Eric S. Yuan, tried to provide users with some context about the sheer volume of Zoom’s sudden growth. Total meeting participants across all of the platform’s users topped out around 10 million in December 2019. March 2020 saw 200 million daily participants across the free and paid tiers. Over the same time period, Facebook says that its...