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| Subject: Statist filth: China Blocks Google Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:23 am | |
| China is ratcheting up scrutiny of foreign companies online ahead of the sensitive 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown Wednesday, presenting challenges to businesses that see it as a growth market.
LinkedIn Corp. LNKD +0.24% said local censorship requirements "have just recently been imposed upon us within China," while Google Inc. GOOGL -1.74% 's search and other services remained inaccessible on Tuesday, in what one activist group says is a significant ramp-up of Beijing's blocks on the company. Anti-censorship activist group GreatFire.org said it had observed an escalation in blockage of Google services in China, including search, Gmail, translation and "almost all other Google products."
LinkedIn launched a Chinese-language version of its professional networking site in February and has set up operations in mainland China. "We've long recognized that offering a localized version of LinkedIn in China would likely mean adherence to censorship requirements of the Chinese government on Internet platforms," a spokesman, Roger Pua, said.
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