{"id":33253,"date":"2021-06-18T18:53:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T09:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/18\/linkedin-blocks-profiles-from-view-in-china-if-sensitive-topics-mentioned"},"modified":"2021-06-18T18:53:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T09:53:51","slug":"linkedin-blocks-profiles-from-view-in-china-if-sensitive-topics-mentioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33253","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn blocks profiles from view in China if sensitive topics mentioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Networking site tells users that references to Tiananmen Square, even as academic study, are prohibited content<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn is blocking profiles from being viewed inside China if they mention politically sensitive topics such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, including benign references to academic study.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the professional networking site has written to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Manfred_E\/status\/1405567201029939201\">several China analysts<\/a>, alerting them to \u201cprohibited content\u201d on their profile pages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/18\/linkedin-blocks-profiles-from-view-in-china-if-sensitive-topics-mentioned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Networking site tells users that references to Tiananmen Square, even as academic study, are prohibited contentLinkedIn is blocking profiles from being viewed inside China if they mention politically sensitive topics such as the Tiananmen Square massac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,50,662,2226,58,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-communism","category-linkedin","category-technology","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253\/revisions\/33254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}