Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China
Microsoft says it is shutting down its LinkedIn service in China later this year following tighter government censorship rules
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Your support makes all the difference.Microsoft is shutting down its LinkedIn service in China later this year after censorship rules were tightened by Beijing
The company said in a blog post Thursday it has faced “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.”
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.”
China’s internet watchdog in May said it had found LinkedIn as well as Microsoft’s Bign search engine and about 100 other apps were engaged in improper collection and use of data and ordered them to fix the problem.
In 2014, LinkedIn launched a site in simplified Chinese the written characters used on the mainland, to expand its reach in the country. It said at the time that expanding in China raises “difficult questions” because it will be required to censor content, but that it would be clear about how it conducts business in China and undertake “extensive measures” to protect members’ rights and data.
Microsoft bought LinkedIn in 2016.