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Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China due to compliance requirements
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IANS | 14 Oct, 2021
Microsoft is shutting down its business and employment-oriented online
service LinkedIn in China, saying that having to comply with the Chinese
state has become increasingly challenging, the BBC reported.
The move comes after the career-networking site faced questions for blocking the profiles of some journalists.
Microsoft
will launch a jobs-only version of the site, called InJobs, later this
year. But this will not include a social feed or the ability to share or
post articles, the report said.
LinkedIn senior vice-president
Mohak Shroff wrote in a blog, "We're facing a significantly more
challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in
China."
LinkedIn was the only major Western social media platform operating in China.
When
it launched there in 2014, it had agreed to adhere to the requirements
of the Chinese government in order to operate in China but also promised
to be transparent about how it conducted business in the country and
said it disagreed with government censorship, the report said.
Recently,
LinkedIn blacklisted several journalists' accounts, including those of
Melissa Chan and Greg Bruno, from its China-based website.
Bruno,
who has written a book documenting China's treatment of Tibetan
refugees, told Verdict that he was not surprised that the Chinese
Communist Party did not like it, but was "dismayed that an American tech
company is caving into the demands of a foreign government".
In
a letter to LinkedIn chief executive Ryan Roslansky and Microsoft boss
Satya Nadella, US Senator Rick Scott called the move a "gross
appeasement and an act of submission to Communist China", the report
said.
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