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Yahoo says goodbye to China completely
Yahoo – no longer available in China. Photo: Ritchie B. Tongo / EPA FILES / dpa
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The American online platform is withdrawing from the Chinese market – a symbolic step. There are political reasons behind this.
The migration of the last American online services from China continues. On Tuesday, web pioneer Yahoo announced that its services would no longer be available from mainland China.
In a statement, the company referred to increasing business and legal challenges. It is a largely symbolic step: The most important Yahoo offers such as e-mail have not been usable in China for years.
It was only in mid-October that Microsoft shut down the Chinese version of the LinkedIn career network. Among other things, the platform referred to higher regulatory requirements. The Google services have not been available in China for a long time, and Facebook was not even started in the country.
Online platforms in China are obliged to make data of Chinese users available to the authorities upon request and content that is prohibited in the country – such as references to the massacre and the bloody suppression of the democracy movement on Tiananmen Square in 1989 in Beijing – to remove. According to US media reports, the authorities have asked LinkedIn to enforce the rules more strictly in recent months.