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LinkedIn under fire for censoring Tiananmen Square posts
- brownbat 12y ago"Update: A LinkedIn spokesperson responded to our request for comment, saying that the company sent a mistaken notification advising a small number of users in Hong Kong that their Tiananmen Square-related content was blocked, but that LinkedIn did not actually block content outside of mainland China (meaning Hong Kong LinkedIn is uncensored)." http://qz.com/216691/linkedin-is-censoring-posts-about-tiananmen-square-even-outside-mainland-china/ http://qz.com/216691/linkedin-is-censoring-posts-about-tiana... That response doesn't seem to explain the deletion of British resident Helen Couchman's posts on the subject... but LinkedIn may have mistakenly considered her a resident of the mainland, since she formerly lived there (and may have set up her account on those servers). (UPDATE: Not to give LinkedIn too much of an out. Even if it was a mere blunder rather than an embrace of global censorship, making errors about this incredibly politically sensitive topic still says something about competence and general preparedness for doing business with China.)