Microsoft to Shut Down LinkedIn in China about seven years after its launch marking the retreat of the last major US-own social network in China as authorities there further tighten their control over the Internet sector.
LinkedIn said that it would replace the platform later this year with a stripped-down version that would focus only on jobs calls InJobs, which would not include a social feed or share options.
LinkedIn Said :
“While we’ve found success in helping Chinese members find jobs and economic opportunity, we have not found that same level of success in the more social aspects of sharing and staying informed,”.
“We’re also facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.”
LinkedIn’s in China have been closely watch as a model for how a Western social media app could operate within the country’s tightly regulated Internet where many other platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are ban.
LinkedIn expands in China in 2014, acknowledging at the time that the company would have to censor some of the content users post on its website to comply with Chinese rules.
LinkedIn has among the companies hit over the past year by a wide-ranging crackdown by Beijing, which has impose fresh curbs on its Internet companies on areas from content to customer privacy.
The Chinese government has also said it wants platforms to more actively promote core socialist values.
LinkedIn pause new signups in China in march saying that it was working to be compliant with Chinese laws.
After two months LinkedIn was among 105 apps that was accuse by China’s top internet regulator of illegally collecting and using personal information and was order to make rectifications.
Microsoft also owns Bing which is the only major foreign search engine accessible from within China’s so-calls Great Firewall whose search results on sensitive topics are censor.
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