[ NNSquad ] LinkedIn agrees to obey Chinese masters' censorship demands

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

LinkedIn agrees to obey Chinese masters' censorship demands

"LinkedIn Expands in China With Local Site Limiting Content"

http://j.mp/1h8kxLL  (Businessweek)

    "LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD:US) is establishing a Chinese-language
     website that will restrict some content to adhere to state
     censorship rules, moving to expand in a country where U.S.
     technology companies have clashed with the government ... The new
     website puts LinkedIn deeper into a country where social-media
     peers such as Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. are blocked after
     they balked at government censorship rules. Facebook hasn't built
     up operations in China beyond hiring contractors to help
     advertisers reach people outside of the country, spokeswoman
     Debbie Frost has said. Google ran afoul of Chinese authorities in
     2010 for refusing to abide by local censorship requirements,
     leading to the company shutting its unfiltered search tools there
     and redirecting users to pages in Hong Kong."

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