ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council. tech companies, into these dilemmas,” said Eileen Donahoe, executive director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University and former U.S. “It has gotten pretty ugly around the world where authoritarian governments are forcing the private sector, particularly U.S. Its business in China struggled as it ran up against major local competitors and a population skeptical about publicly listing valuable contacts. No major internet platform has followed in LinkedIn’s footsteps. Seven years on, it has become apparent the experiment did not work. At the same time, we also believe that LinkedIn’s absence in China would deny Chinese professionals a means to connect with others.” Even in 2014, LinkedIn acknowledged the challenge, saying, “LinkedIn strongly supports freedom of expression and fundamentally disagrees with government censorship. The company teamed with a well-connected venture capital firm, which it said would help it with government relations.īut LinkedIn also agreed to censor the posts made by its millions of Chinese users in accordance with Chinese laws, something that other American companies were often reluctant or unable to do. When LinkedIn expanded in China in 2014 with a localized service, it offered a tentative model for other major foreign internet companies looking to tap the country’s huge, lucrative and highly censored market. China’s internet, which operates behind a system of filters known as the Great Firewall, is heavily censored and has gone in its own direction. Twitter and Facebook have been blocked in the country for years, and Google left more than a decade ago. LinkedIn’s action ends what had been one of the most far-reaching experiments by a foreign social network in China, where the internet is closely controlled by the government. It will not have social networking features such as sharing posts and commenting, which have been critical to LinkedIn’s success in the United States and elsewhere. LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, said it would offer a new app for the Chinese market focused solely on job postings.
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SEATTLE - LinkedIn said on Thursday that it was shutting down its professional networking service in China later this year, citing “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements,” in a move that completes the fracture between American social networks and China.
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