LinkedIn’s China compromise shows price of market access

Published January 3, 2019 11:30pm ET



Two of the most important issues going into 2019 are China and tech policy. At the intersection of the two is Google’s controversial plan to build a censored search engine, dubbed project Dragonfly, for China. Although reports indicate that the project was scrapped over internal criticism, tech companies will keep looking for ways to gain access to China’s mostly closed market.

Enter LinkedIn, the widely popular professional networking platform that has successfully set up shop in China and operated a censored version since 2014.

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