announced on Thursday a sunset of its localized version of its platform in China that currently has over 50 million users. The platform had recently been criticized for blocking several U.S. journalists for the use of “prohibited content” in light of a crackdown by Chinese authorities earlier this year. [LinkedIn] , a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, The move will devolve the Chinese platform from a social media service to a straightforward job-seeking platform. It’s an end to an experiment that was likely to manifest itself this way from the beginning. The incident is the latest example of a Western…