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That's not how E2E is defined... anywhere. Also you don't have to be P2P to support E2E.

> If the connection is encrypted between all clients and the central server, a business person might say that's end-to-end,

I think that's the problem being described. That is not end-to-end encrypted. It is, however, encrypted.

Zoom simply needs to drop the "end-to-end" part.

I'm afraid of other services catching on to this "semantic loophole". Would changing the terminology to perhaps client-to-client encryption solve this?