Russia fulfills its threat and blocks LinkedIn in the country

In recent years it has become fashionable for some governments, especially those that want to have greater control over the information available on the internet for their citizens, such as Russia and China, the idea that all your citizens' data is stored on local servers, in order to be able to access in a much simpler way, even if they do not say it logically. A couple of years ago, Russia created a new law to force all companies that offer service in the country to host all their citizen data in the country. China, for its part, has created a new, very similar law, a law that will come into effect from June next year and will also affect all companies.

The first affected by this new law that has not succumbed has been LinkedIn, which after several threats from the Russian government, has seen its access blocked. Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor has begun enforcing this new law after the company, now in Microsoft's hands, has not transferred all the data of its citizens to servers hosted in Russia, a fundamental requirement to continue operating in the country.

LinkedIn has confirmed the blocking of the service in a statement in which we can read:

LinkedIn's vision is to create economic opportunity for all of our global users. We are starting to hear from users in Russia who claim that they can no longer access LinkedIn. Roskomnadzor's action of blocking access to LinkedIn denies access to the millions of members we have in Russia and the companies that use LinkedIn to grow their businesses. We are interested in meeting with Roskomnadzor to discuss the request to relocate the data again.