Stop bowing to Beijing, MPs tell LinkedIn

LinkedIn is facing pressure from senior MPs and academics to stop “bowing to Beijing” by censoring users who are critical of China.The Times has identified scholars, businessmen, journalists, whistleblowers and a former diplomat whose accounts were blocked in China after the professional networking site found “prohibited content” on their profiles.References on their pages to the Tiananmen Square massacre, criticism of the Chinese Communist Party or support for Uighurs and the independence movements in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet are thought to have led to the accounts being blocked.The social media company, which has 756 million users and is owned by Microsoft, is facing calls for it to be regulated like a television broadcaster and face sanctions for non-compliance.LinkedIn notified affected users
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