Posted on 12/26/2021 5:04:17 PM PST by ransomnote
LinkedIn is the sole judge, jury, and executioner of what constitutes “misleading or inaccurate” information and whether you violate their user agreement. They can terminate you at any time, for any reason. You have no recourse.
Because I made 3 truthful, accurate statements that some people at LinkedIn considered to be misleading or inaccurate, my account (built up over nearly 20 years) is now permanently deleted.
Instead of simply restricting my ability to post, they basically wiped out my entire identity so nobody can even see who I am anymore or what I accomplished. My resume is gone. My awards are gone. Nobody can even find out I ever existed.
I didn’t even get a chance to copy my profile before they wiped me out. All my contacts are gone. The record of my 7 companies I started: gone.
No one will be able to lookup my history there anymore. It’s like burning books in the library.
Wikipedia did the same thing to me. They removed the mention that I received a National Caring Award as retribution for speaking out about vaccine safety.
This can happen to you if you too disagree with mainstream thought.
America today is about conformity with mainstream thought. If you disagree, you lose your job, lose your ability to communicate, and they remove any record of your existence.
I’m now lifetime banned on Medium, Twitter, LinkedIn, and sendgrid. The reason I am not yet banned on Facebook and YouTube is because I never post there anymore. That’s the trick. Just stop posting anything that goes against mainstream thinking and you won’t be banned.
Social networks are the new “town hall.” Being arbitrarily terminated from a large social network because they disagreed with my views, is simply stunning.
I can’t use email either because if an email provider decides they don’t like what you are saying in your private emails, they can ban you as well. I’m permanently banned from sendgrid, for example, because I sent one email to my personal contacts that fluvoxamine was effective against COVID. That’s all it took. They deleted my account and all my contacts without warning and without any ability to recover them.
What’s next?
Will my Internet provider be next to drop my internet service because they don’t like the emails I send? Today, they are under the jurisdiction of the FCC, but laws can be changed at any time so that the government can better silence critics like me.
Will every bank close my bank account?
Will PayPal terminate my PayPal account like they did for the National Vaccine Information Center?
Will grocery stores be required to check IDs on entry and not let you buy food if you are on a “critical thinkers” list?
An America where if you disagree with mainstream beliefs, your ability to communicate with others will be terminated and you will have no recourse even if everything you said is absolutely true.
Truthful speech is not protected in America.
Biden’s “Disinformation Dozen” list is wrong and sets a dangerous precedent.
It is stunning to me that the leader of the free world is advocating for censorship of free speech.
He’s supported in his call for censorship by every member of Congress (none of whom have spoken out against this) and by all the mainstream media (again, none speak out against this list and the dangerous precedent it sets).
We are truly living in a new America.
Here’s what they said were the three posts that justified a permanent removal of my account (without possibility of download):
Response (12/14/2021 08:56 CST)
Hi Steve,
Your account was restricted due to multiple violations of LinkedIn's User Agreement and Professional Community Policies against sharing content that contains misleading or inaccurate information:
Post on 9/26/2021: Inconvenient truth: >150,000 excess deaths in VAERS. Jeffrey Morris REFUSES to debate my team in a video RECORDED call. He writes papers but is AFRAID to have them publicly challenged.
Post on 9/22/2021: I just sent this to Eric Topol: Eric, I'm a big vaccine skeptic. I think the vaccines have killed over xxx people. Would you like to debate? You can do the world a HUGE service by showing people how ridiculous my assertions are. You can bring down all my 20 experts at the same time in a 1 hour debate. You'd end vaccine hesitancy. [had to xxx to escape censorship from LinkedIn ]
Post on 9/20/2021: Nicki Minaj was telling the truth. All the authorities were wrong. The facts are all with Nicki. The authorities cited no evidence to support their position. But they are the authorities so we should believe them NO MATTER WHAT the science actually says, right? The authorities NEVER make mistakes. https://lnkd.in/gqYieZyX
Any additional violation of our terms can result in the permanent restriction of your account. We have these policies in place to help keep LinkedIn a safe, trusted and professional network for everyone.
You may appeal the restriction by responding to this email with your agreement and intent to comply with our User Agreement and our Professional Community Policies.
• User Agreement: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement
• Professional Community Policies: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/professional-community-policies
If you have any questions regarding your appeal you can reply to this email. Thank you for being part of the LinkedIn community.
Regards,
Wyatt
LinkedIn Member Safety and Recovery Consultant
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God bless Steve (and others) for getting the truth out.
Amazing to see the $hot $hills stoop so low as to attempt to smear him, over info he’s researched/provided....sounding just like the censoring leftist media platforms, rather than be disgusted that a person can be so easily cancelled, at the whims of the lying left.
Sorry, but the constitution does not guarantee anyone the right to free social media expression. It’s their service and they can refuse access to anyone.
This guy should be a little ashamed for whining like this.
There are only two sexes.
Humans are mammals.
There is no such thing as a transgender, transsexual or hermaphrodite mammal.
This is biology.
LinkedIn was a job hunting connection. You could have people who might be interested in you for contract work look at your credentials. It was interesting how some of the more obscure little thing might give you a boost. For example I once got a job offer simply because I had worked with the relative of someone who worked in another company. Her uncle was impressed enough with my work that he had mentioned it and when my name crossed her radar it was enough to tip the scale.
I haven’t updated my profile in years. I still get some calls based on my profile but I don’t think too much about it anymore.
So the phone company can refuse to hook up your phone, the mail service may refuse to deliver to you, the electric company can refuse to sell you energy and the water company can cut you off?
Well no.
They get certain special protections and in return they must supply service to everybody.
The Media sites also got special protection in exchange for allowing people to speak freely on their platforms. And now, under pressure from the government they are shutting down certain voices.
You think that this is perfectly ok.
I think you are the one that should be ashamed.
I hate people who post political crap on LinkedIn. That’s not the purpose of LinkedIn. Save that crap for facebook
But when I was doing contract work it was useful.
I do get the occasional offer and I might take it if the job is interesting enough and I can work it in.
I was erased by Facebook in a similar manner. I don’t miss it.
take a look at shlinkedin.com
I deleted my linkedin account after running an experiment. I was b/w jobs at the time. I was getting nowhere. I took my exact profile but changed the name to an Indian one. Tons of recruiters. Changed up a few more things; age, gender and got even more. I then realized that many of the recruiters didn’t want us evil middle aged white men. So, f’m, and I went back to work in a role in which it is illegal to hire non citizens.
Try posting what the OP posted.
I didn’t know Microsoft took over Linked-in. Is Microsoft like another Whirlpool taking over most of the appliance companies?
Not a big fan of folks who use LinkedIn like Facebook…
I would, but I have family and old associates and friends who are members. I’ve learned the hard way not to post anything like that for fear that it’ll come back and bite me in the ass down the road.
If you’re retired, what would family and old associates and friends do if you posted on LinkedIn to get your account cancelled?
I still get the occasional contact or query from them. I imagine it would have to be pretty far to step over the line. So, I jut let the account lie fallow. Even my personal info is so out of date I probably lived in another state when I signed up.
“Will my Internet provider be next to drop my internet service because they don’t like the emails I send?”
Last year 2020 I was using HostPapa as my provider for my website and email. They recently bought LunarPages which hosted my website since 2007.
I could not send an email to my relative about the Bidens in 2020
I used terms the HostPapa company did not like. They are based in Canada.
It said the message was “classified as SPAM and may not be delivered”
They were blocking due to terms like pedophile, molested and because I mention Biden’s name. Bidens troubles are being blocked by the news media and others.
I now use Bluehost.com which had my website and email all working in less then an hour. Their support chat was great as were the walkthrus for the setup.
The socialists / democrats do not believe in free speech.
There's a site called Stack Overflow where geeks share computer tips and can get info on job openings. You can also get into arguments on LGBTQ issues and whether women and minorities are underrepresented in the comp sci field. But good luck keeping your account if you have the "wrong" opinion.
Thank you
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