Discussion

• @bethanyallenebr B. Allen-Ebrahimian on x

  I woke up this morning to discover that LinkedIn had blocked my profile in China. I used to have to wait for Chinese govt censors, or censors employed by Chinese companies in China, to do this kind of thing. Now a US company is paying its own employees to censor Americans. https:…

• @repjimbanks Jim Banks on x

  I sent a letter to @LinkedIn about this last week. Waiting to hear back... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @yair_rosenberg Yair Rosenberg on x

  This is obscene. @LinkedIn, a US company, is censoring a US journalist and her ability to reach Chinese readers at the bidding of China's censorious regime. @BethanyAllenEbr's reporting is essential, and I hope this backfires and draws even more attention to her work. https://twi…

• @danielkorski Daniel Korski on x

  Is there value in requiring companies to be up-front and open when you sign up to their services and continuously about which jurisdictions they only offer a partial or government-mandated service? A sort of ‘Values of Use’ rather than only a Terms of Use. https://twitter.com/...

• @politicalmath PoliMath on x

  This makes sense and, actually, it's good. LinkedIn is a private company and has to best serve their customers. Some of their customers are Chinese, so they need to make sure they can work well with China. They have every right to block anti-China advocates. https://twitter.com/.…

• @aymanm Ayman on x

  Absolutely incredible. The censorship by internet companies to placate governments - in this case China - continues. https://twitter.com/...

• @hotlinejosh Josh Kraushaar on x

  Wake up and smell the coffee. The influence that Communist China is holding over American corporations is only deepening. https://twitter.com/...

• @rlheinrichs Rebeccah Heinrichs on x

  The PRC squeezed Microsoft's LinkedIn and it worked. https://www.axios.com/...

• @thecynicist Fatima Ayub on x

  Good enough reason to delete my LinkedIn profile, given that the entire world has decided that an *ongoing genocide against Uyghur Muslims in China* merits no response at all. https://twitter.com/...

• @davidafrench David French on x

  Inexcusable. One of the great strategic and moral tasks of the next decade will be disentangling corporate America from dependence on Chinese markets. If corporations are concerned about morality, the monstrousness of the Chinese communist regime should awaken their consciences. …

• @kasparov63 Garry Kasparov on x

  More consequences of engagement with dictatorships, training US companies and employees how to censor to satisfy the Chinese Communist Party. Engagement doesn't liberalize authoritarians, it spreads corruption and totalitarianism the other way. https://twitter.com/...

• @rlheinrichs Rebeccah Heinrichs on x

  Well this is awful and- if there is any bipartisan agreement to be found!- there shld be bipartisan condemnation of this https://twitter.com/...

• @jonathanvswan Jonathan Swan on x

  US company LinkedIn now works as a censor on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, blocking my Axios colleague's profile because of her critical reporting on the CCP. You should follow Bethany. She is a diligent, ethical reporter and we are lucky to have her at Axios. https://tw…

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  For not the first time, I have to ask, WTAF @LinkedIn?! This is grotesque. https://twitter.com/...

• @ewong Edward Wong on x

  This thread raises the persistent issue of American media / internet companies bowing to censorship pressures from China. Meanwhile, Chinese intel agencies have been using LinkedIn to try to recruit assets “on a mass scale,” as one US official said: https://www.nytimes.com/... ht…

• @elson_tong Elson Tong on x

  One of the most lucid threads - considering the incentives and lack of deterrence of acting in Beijing's interests against US citizens, LinkedIn is acting 100% rationally here https://twitter.com/...

• @logan_ratick Logan Ratick on x

  LinkedIn's parent company is Microsoft https://twitter.com/...

• @ustechworkers @ustechworkers on x

  Silicon Valley tech companies will literally lay-off American workers and replace them with foreign workers so they can profit off of cheap indentured labor. These companies aren't motivated by what's in the best interest of the citizens. https://twitter.com/...

• @votemarsha Marsha Blackburn on x

  Make no mistake: Big Tech cares more about appeasing Communist China than Americans' free speech. https://www.axios.com/...

• @niccijsmith Nicola Smith on x

  “If LinkedIn's behavior is normalized, it sends a message to companies across the globe that it is business as usual to enforce Beijing's censorship demands globally,” PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said. @BethanyAllenEbr on LinkedIn's censorship in China https://twitter.com/...