US companies says good bye China

With the PIPL laws in effect, multiple companies have left China
US companies says good bye China

Fortnite and Yahoo are among the latest to leave China. Following LinkedIn's departure from the country last month

LinkedIn

LinkedIn plans to return to China later this year, as Injobs and will then be striped the ability sharing post and other social media aspects

Why are they leaving?

Reason for these companies to pull out of China, is the PIPL law that went into affect last August. The PIPL is a privacy law, similar to GDPR found in Europe

PIPL requires companies to only store necassary information of end users, require user approval before collecting sensitive information and limits what data can be transferred accros boarders

It also requires there to be a way for end users to disallow algorithm based advertisment and personalizations

For foreign companies, there's also an requirement to have their own Chinese delegate that reports to the Chinese government

PIPL impact on gaming

When it comes to gaming, Chinese government only allow 3 hours gaming a week and it's the gaming companies responsibility to ensure kids follow these limitations

Fortnite have announced on their Chinese website [↗] that servers will shutdown 15th November, registration for new users shutdown November 1st

User privacy

Another aspect, is user privacy and is part of the reason why Yahoo have already pulled out of China on November 1st

In recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, Yahoo's suite of services will no longer be accessible from mainland China as of November 1

Yahoo says to Reuters [↗], continuing

Yahoo remains committed to the rights of our users and a free and open internet. We thank our users for their support

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