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Business social network LinkedIn has trumped Facebook and Twitter by launching a localised site for China, although the US firm admitted it would be subject to government censorship requirements. The English language version has been used by professionals in China for over a decade and has over four million users, but the firm …

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  1. Ole Juul

    Oh great

    Now I can get twice the LinkedIn spam.

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    1. frank ly
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      Re: Oh great

      Or many more than twice the number of notifications of a conference on urban renewal in Beijing. You may know these conference speakers.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Altruism

    "...we also believe that LinkedIn’s absence in China would deny Chinese professionals a means to connect with others on our global platform, thereby limiting the ability of individual Chinese citizens to pursue and realise the economic opportunities, dreams and rights most important to them."

    Oh bless.

    How noble of them to offer their services to China. You would almost think that the Chinese market would cost Linked-in, not increase their value.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    China needs us more than we need freedom

    While I applaud the sarcasm, sometimes plain English is just as effective, so let me paraphrase:

    We want their money more then they want their freedom.

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    1. Ramazan
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      IMHO it's more like "we need their money more than we care about freedom".

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  4. Pen-y-gors

    Good excuse to close my account

    It's pretty pointless anyway, so [**censored**] LinkedIn

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Good excuse to close my account

      True, I can't remember the last time I logged into linked in, for certain my CV on there is 2-3 years out of date..

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  5. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    "China needs us more than we need freedom"

    Um, you have freedom, nobody is taking it from you.

    As for China, it doesn't need you in any way, shape or form.

    If it does start to need something like you, it will make its own version.

    So go ahead and bend over while the going's good. If you think your customer base is going to have any loyalty to you, well let me just say one day you will wake up very sorry.

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