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LinkedIn: The last remaining western network leaves China

With LinkedIn, the last remaining major American social media platform, has bowed to the pressure of Chinese censorship. LinkedIn still wants to remain in China with a pure job portal. However, even before its launch this year, this project is not considered promising. And so the Chinese are now using LinkedIn in the same way as they have been using Google or Facebook for a long time: via officially forbidden but tolerated VPN channels.

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Frank Sieren
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Social platform LinkedIn is shutting down its Chinese-language site, which had been running as a parallel service under the name Lingying (领英) since 2014. LinkedIn’s withdrawal is the culmination of a development that has been going on for more than a decade. It has to do with the increasingly dense network of censorship with which the Chinese government is sealing off its country from information from the West.

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