With the shut down of its main LinkedIn service in China, Microsoft becomes the latest American tech giant to lessen its ties to the country
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.is shutting down its main LinkedIn service in China later this year after internet rules were tightened by Beijing, the latest American tech giant to lessen its ties to the country.
LinkedIn will replace its localized platform in China with a new app called InJobs that has some of LinkedIn’s career-networking features but “will not include a social feed or the ability to share posts or articles.”LinkedIn in March said it would pause new member sign-ups on LinkedIn China because of unspecified regulatory issues.
Tony Lee, a scholar at Berlin’s Free University, told the AP in June that LinkedIn didn’t tell him which content was prohibited but said it was tied to the section of his profile where he listed his publications. Among his listed articles was one about the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and another comparing Chinese leader Xi Jinping with former leader Mao Zedong.
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