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China blocks access to LinkedIn
- citizenkeys 16y agoThe issue seems to be that LinkedIn has full Twitter integration. So people in China are now using LinkedIn to communicate through Twitter.
- dools 16y agoI 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 16y agoAccess has been restored. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12586462 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12586462
- ericxtang 16y agoYou 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 16y agoIt 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_scholars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of...]. And it did not end well.