LinkedIn censoring posts about the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China and abroad
- 9 years ago
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In an effort to stop Chinese users from seeing content prohibited by China's censorship laws, LinkedIn has been censoring posts outside of mainland China. LinkedIn Users in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and elsewhere who mentioned the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre earlier this week found their posts scrubbed by the social networking site.
Though LinkedIn has defended its censorship of posts outside of China mentioning Tiananmen Square as "accidental," it's the latest sign that the reach of China's censorship apparatus has spread well beyond its borders to influence content everywhere.
The outbreak of the zombie apocalypse in last year's Brad Pitt movie World War Z, for example, was changed from Shanghai to Moscow, and the country that invaded United States in the 2012 film Red Dawn and the 2011 video game Homefront was rewritten in both cases from China to the rather implausible North Korea.
Companies may feel that by kowtowing to Beijing they will gain advantages in one of the world's biggest markets. That's not how the Chinese Communist Party does business. Censoring posts about Tiananmen is not doing Beijing a favor that will be returned in kind, it is creating a new set of expectations from which future concessions will be expected.
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In an effort to stop Chinese users from seeing content prohibited by China's censorship laws, LinkedIn has been censoring posts outside of mainland China. LinkedIn Users in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and elsewhere who mentioned the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre earlier this week found their posts scrubbed by the social networking site.
Though LinkedIn has defended its censorship of posts outside of China mentioning Tiananmen Square as "accidental," it's the latest sign that the reach of China's censorship apparatus has spread well beyond its borders to influence content everywhere.
The outbreak of the zombie apocalypse in last year's Brad Pitt movie World War Z, for example, was changed from Shanghai to Moscow, and the country that invaded United States in the 2012 film Red Dawn and the 2011 video game Homefront was rewritten in both cases from China to the rather implausible North Korea.
Companies may feel that by kowtowing to Beijing they will gain advantages in one of the world's biggest markets. That's not how the Chinese Communist Party does business. Censoring posts about Tiananmen is not doing Beijing a favor that will be returned in kind, it is creating a new set of expectations from which future concessions will be expected.
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