professional social media service from mainland China, citing the difficulties of compliance in the Middle Kingdom.
“We’re also facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China,” LinkedIn explained on its corporate blog. “Given this, we’ve made the decision to sunset the current localized version of LinkedIn later this year.” But it had increasingly been called out for censoring posts and accounts that might offend Beijing. In August, it halted new member signups. “We’re a global platform with an obligation to respect the local laws that apply to us,” it explained at the time.
Until recently, China’s tech firms had waded into the field of journalism with their own news reporting especially in the fields of entertainment and finance.