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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I like LinkedIn for networking and professional stuff. I hate seeming anything remotely political on it.
The Alinsky mob likes to use LinkedIn to inform your employer of comments you make anywhere.
That makes sense. But I think we are giving these networks too much power.
If the power goes out will people have forgotten how to communicate the old fashion way?
Yeah, me too!
The dude is a pushy know it all. Impossible not to know he exists. All you have to do is watch a video with him and others. He'll be the overbearing personality in the group. Wikipedia refers to him as a serial entrepreneur. Smart guy but very Type A personality. Maybe Type AAA.
LinkedIn was one of the last platforms I stayed on. Recently, I turned my account private and stopped going there. It started turning into another facebook (farcebook).
I don’t think anyone should be banned. The “150,000 vaccine deaths” is a monstrous lie based on the argument that because there were more excess deaths in 2021 than in 2020, and 2021 was when the vaccines were introduced, the vaccines caused the excess deaths. This ignored the fact that 2021 was when we were able to go to church, go to a restaurant, go to work, go to a gym, go to a huge concert or game. Because we had freedom to assemble, more people got Covid and died. I think this was worth it. 15 million people lost their jobs in 2020, the government spent 4 trillion dollars to pay them not to work. The vaccines allowed us to lead normal lives. Attributing the excess deaths to the vaccines is so stupid its funny. So Steve Kirsch should be allowed to post, and people not so stupid should be able to freely refute every single stupid thing he says. I’m for debate and common sense, not censorship. Bagster, ransomnote, jane long, please keep posting.
Not judging - I respect the guy - but this sounds like a big whine.
I downloaded my FB account and took steps to preserve years of writing content/posts after the FIRST warning.
LinkedIn is the sole repository of my online presence and it remains there for professional reasons ONLY. They had previously restricted an article on forest fire, so I ceased all activity and contributions there. That was 7 years ago.
He conceded that “Christmas came early.” He should just let it go without the whine. Besides the whine, all good points (aside from foolishly not downloading his account).
There’s a big lesson in there for others who choose to poke the bear...
Is LINKDIN really the platform for those kinds of posts? Just saying.
The purpose of the account was to keep up with a couple of friend in China where other forms of Social Media are not allowed.
They knew the name. It was an inside joke. For fun I created a fake resume.
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In the novel “1984,” Mr. Kirsch would now be an “unperson.”
Under the spreading chesnut tree, I sold you and you sold me...
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