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| LinkedIn Banned In China |
CHINA NEWS – One of the largest business networking sites in the world LinkedIn has announced that China who blocked the site in the country restored its access, a day after it was blocked there. A spokesman of the company said they would monitor the situation.
Presently China has undergoing an intra-nation conflict, and when the site went offline Friday, a forum was created, discussing the idea of a “Jasmine Revolution” in China. The phrase is now quite in style to define different revolts in the Middle East.
The Agence France-Presse news agency said one of its reporters could access the website in Beijing Saturday.
China has already banned certain websites inside mainland China, and a number of demonstrations were held across China in response to access websites. Last weekend, a number of pro-democracy demonstrations were held to calls made on the website Boxun.com, which has been banned by the Chinese government.
China has already restricted many websites and blocked politically sensitive material in the internet. The popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are barred.
However, LinkedIn used by a small numbers of professionals is not totally banned, but one can access via domestic internet servers within China. Nevertheless, the Chinese authorities have increased the filtering process in response to rising pro-democracy protest across the Middle East.
The search for the ‘jasmine’ is blocked on the country’s most popular search engine Sina.com.
February 27, 2011 | 0
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