From The San Francisco Chronicle
LinkedIn Blocked in China After 'Jasmine' Protest Postings
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- LinkedIn Corp., operator of the largest networking site for professionals, became inaccessible in China after a user posted comments that Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution should spread to the Asian country.
The blockage of the service "appears to be part of a broader effort in China going on right now, involving other sites as well," Hani Durzy, a spokesman for Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn, said in an e-mail. The company will continue to monitor the situation, he wrote....
"Often, this is done as a sort of a warning signal — sort of a shot across the bow," said Doug Tygar, professor of computer science [and information] at the University of California at Berkeley. "A portion of that is symbolic."
The problems accessing the site are "likely" connected to the creation of the LinkedIn group, Tygar said. Chinese citizens can use Internet services to work around blocked sites, he said....