Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to debut in the Senate today. TCL’s cheap smartphones sound pretty good, actually. The gaming industry is serious about combatting cheating. Instacart might be on strike this weekend, and Gitlab celebrates its IPO. Sponsors: FindYourFidelity.com Dataiku.com Links: Microsoft Folds LinkedIn Social-Media Service in China (WSJ) Effort to Bar Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’ Gains Traction (WSJ) Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do (The Verge) Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid to secure better working conditions (Toronto Star) TCL’S BUDGET 20S AND 20SE PHONES DEFY EXPECTATIONS (The Verge) Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system includes a kernel-level driver to catch PC cheaters (The Verge) Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme ride home for Thursday, October 14th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Microsoft is shutting down LinkedIn in China. The first major tech regulation bill of this wave is set to
0:15.0	debut in the Senate today. TCL's cheap smartphones sound pretty good actually. The
0:20.5	gaming industry is serious about combating cheating.
0:23.0	Instacart might be on strike this weekend,
0:26.0	and GitLab celebrates its IPO.
0:28.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:34.0	Microsoft said this morning that it is shutting down its Chinese version of LinkedIn and
0:38.8	replacing it with a just run-of-the-mill job board.
0:42.8	Sources told the Wall Street Journal that back in March,
0:45.3	the Chinese government told LinkedIn
0:46.6	to regulate better the content on its sort of news feed
0:51.1	product, quoting the journal.
0:53.7	This marks the end of the last major American social media
0:56.3	network operating openly in China.
0:58.6	LinkedIn in a statement Thursday said that it made the decision
1:01.6	after, quote, facing a significantly more challenging operating environment
1:04.9	and greater compliance requirements in China end quote.
1:08.1	In March China's internet regulator told LinkedIn officials to better regulate its
1:11.5	content and gave them 30 days to do so according
1:14.6	to people familiar with the matter. In recent months LinkedIn notified several China
1:18.6	focused human rights activists, academics and journalists that their profiles were being blocked in China
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