USA based Yahoo, Chinese announced that it has decided to close its operations. Two Stanford University The portal, which was established by his student in 1994, was at first search engine was providing service. In the following years, e-mail service and current developments website was also added.
Lately in china Internet regulations are starting to annoy many companies. last month Microsoft’s professional network LinkedInhad curtailed its activities in the country. However, now we see that Yahoo has taken a similar decision.
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from Yahoo A new announcement came today. Company, in china announced that it has completely terminated its services. The statement suggested that there is an “increasingly challenging commercial and legal environment” in China. For this reason, he stated that the company parted ways with China.
According to the company’s statement, Yahoo services As of November 1 It is no longer available for China. Associated Press’s (AP“Given the increasingly difficult business and legal environment in China, Yahoo’s suite of services will no longer be available from mainland China from November 1,” the company said in a statement. said.
Yahoo’s decision comes into effect on November 1 in China. Personal Information Protection Act It came the same day as. So, what does the new law enacted in China say? To put it briefly, according to the law, the information that companies can collect will now be restricted. In addition, standards for how this information should be stored will also be determined.
Chinese authorities in Internet censorship tightly controlled. However, it requires companies operating in China to censor content and keywords deemed politically sensitive or inappropriate. However, Yahoo stated that it adheres to the rights of users, to the free and open internet.
By the way, already Yahoo had previously shrunk its Chinese activities. For example, in 2015 Beijing closed his office. In addition, China, most international social media sites, Facebooku and Google It blocks search engines such as Therefore, users in China access these networks with VPN.
However, Yahoo isn’t the only US-based company that has curtailed its operations in China in recent weeks. last month Microsoft, LinkedIn china site announced that it will close.