LinkedIn censors profiles to appease CCP

In recent days, LinkedIn has been notifying American journalists that it is blocking their profiles to appease the Chinese Communist Party.

LinkedIn is informing them that "your profile and your public activity, such as your comments and items that you share with your network, will not be made viewable in China." The company is not specifying what content is so offensive.

You read that right. An American company is censoring Americans to appease a foreign dictatorship.

Stories like this aren't completely new. Big Tech has sided with foreign dictators before. I recall a wave of Big Tech censorship in the late '90s or so, some of which was designed to please authoritarian regimes abroad. And who could forget Yahoo turning in journalists to the Chinese government?

More recently, Apple, Google, and YouTube have caved to overseas censors' demands.

The Democrats are furious. Wait, no, they're not. That would be the 1991 Democrats. The 2021 Democrats don't care, because they hate America.

LinkedIn issued a statement declaring, "We're a global platform that respects the laws that apply to us, including adhering to Chinese government regulations for our localized version of LinkedIn in China." Then what about following American laws in America? The U.S. used to look dimly on antitrust violations and against common carriers policing content.

The treason by Big Tech and the Democrats isn't a problem we can just bubble away.