Microsoft’s professional network · www.linkedin.com
Russia has blocked LinkedIn since November 2016 for not storing Russians’ data in Russia. In China, LinkedIn withdrew instead of being blocked, shutting its Chinese network in 2021 and its jobs app there in 2023.
By the vpnAlert team · Background checked on 10 Oct 2026 · Tested every day since 29 Sep 2026 ·
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Every day we open LinkedIn from inside 24 countries, mostly over home broadband, and record
where it’s blocked, since when and how.
2 of 24tested countries with a confirmed block of LinkedIn
LinkedIn is blocked in Russia, and on some networks in Vietnam. 24 of 24 results confirmed in the last 48 hours.
Blocked means the networks we test there failed to open www.linkedin.com, twice, while it opened elsewhere.
“Turned away by the site” means LinkedIn itself refused visitors from that country.
“In our tests since” is when our own tests first showed the result, not when a ban began: where it reads “our first test”, the block may be older. Older results are excluded from current totals.
Background
Where LinkedIn is restricted, and why
LinkedIn was the first major international platform Russia blocked under its data localisation law, which since September 2015 has required sites holding Russian citizens’ personal data to keep it on servers in Russia. A Moscow court ruled against LinkedIn in August 2016, the Moscow City Court upheld the ruling on 10 November, and on 17 November 2016 Roskomnadzor ordered providers to block the site, which had more than 6 million registered users in Russia.
Talks with Roskomnadzor in December 2016 ended without agreement, and in January 2017 Apple and Google removed LinkedIn’s app from their Russian stores at the government’s demand. Russia has since fined Google, WhatsApp, Snapchat and others under the same law, but in 2021 Freedom House still called LinkedIn the most notable platform blocked for breaking it.
China was a market exit. LinkedIn launched a Chinese service in 2014 and censored it to meet local rules, blocking some profiles, including journalists’. In October 2021 it said it would shut that network, citing a “significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements”, and offer a jobs-only app without a feed or sharing; in May 2023 it said that app, InCareer, would close by 9 August 2023.
Independent tests from inside China still reached the global linkedin.com site in October 2026. Iran cut LinkedIn off in September 2022, along with Google Play and Apple’s App Store, and users could reach it again a month later. LinkedIn was also among the global firms that missed Nepal’s registration deadline in September 2025, so it was blocked with 25 other platforms until the government reversed the ban days later, after deadly protests.
Key dates
LinkedIn misses Nepal’s registration deadline and is blocked with 25 other platforms until the ban is lifted days later.
LinkedIn says it will close InCareer, its jobs-only app for China, by 9 August 2023.
Iran cuts off LinkedIn, along with Google Play and Apple’s App Store, for about a month.
LinkedIn says it will shut its censored Chinese social network, citing a tougher operating environment and compliance demands.
Apple and Google remove LinkedIn’s app from their Russian app stores at the government’s demand.
Roskomnadzor orders Russian providers to block LinkedIn for not storing Russian users’ data in Russia.
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History
Changes for LinkedIn
No confirmed changes since monitoring began on 29 Sep 2026. When a block appears or lifts, and a re-check on several machines agrees, it shows up here.
Method
How we test
Test machines on the two biggest home-internet providers in most countries open the homepage every day.
A failure counts only when it happens twice on the same network, while the site opens from other countries.
A change is published only after re-checks a few hours later and again the next day, on several machines per provider, confirm it. It’s dated from the first sighting.
Test machines caught getting around blocks, through a VPN or a filter-dodging tool, are set aside.
We test websites, mostly over home broadband. Apps, calls and mobile networks can behave differently.
For breaking Russia’s data localisation law, which since September 2015 has required sites holding Russian citizens’ personal data to store it on servers in Russia. Courts ruled against LinkedIn in August and November 2016, Roskomnadzor ordered the block that November, and talks with the regulator in December 2016 ended without agreement.
Can You Use LinkedIn in China?
The global linkedin.com site opened in independent tests from inside China in October 2026. What China lost was LinkedIn’s local version: LinkedIn shut its censored Chinese social network in 2021, citing a more challenging operating environment, and closed InCareer, its China jobs app, in August 2023 amid fierce competition.
Which Countries Have Blocked LinkedIn?
Russia has blocked it since November 2016. Iran cut it off for about a month in 2022, and Nepal blocked it for a few days in September 2025 with 25 other unregistered platforms. In China, LinkedIn closed its local services itself rather than being blocked.
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