China blocks access to LinkedIn

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/25/china.blocks.linkedin.fastco/

by citizenkeys • 15 years ago

38 5 15 years ago

The issue seems to be that LinkedIn has full Twitter integration. So people in China are now using LinkedIn to communicate through Twitter.

dools• 15 years ago

I have to side with the Chinese government on this one - having Twitter plugged into LinkedIn is very annoying :) I usually just end up blocking all status updates from Twitterers.

LinkedIn actually provide a way of distinguishing between tweets about feeding your dog and those that should appear on LinkedIn by including #in hashtag but it seems very few people actually use it.

ximeng• 15 years ago

Access has been restored.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12586462

ericxtang• 15 years ago

You can totally just set up a mirror in the U.S to access any websites. There are also services out there to get around the firewall.

eddieplan9• 15 years ago

It is so sad that LinkedIn says this could affect their IPO. This basically shows that the Chinese government, by leveraging the large population and market, could indirectly dictate what a US company could and could not do in order to please the Wall Street folks. I hope things won't go much worse in the coming decade. A Chinese myself, I sometimes just don't want to believe when some people are saying this century will belong to China. This Chinese authority continues to do what essentially was what Qin Shi Huang did 2,000 years ago after he conquered the whole China [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of...]. And it did not end well.

China blocks access to LinkedIn

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