[LINK] Why Was I Banned from LinkedIn?

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:56 +1100 16/11/13, Tom Worthington wrote:
>   ... I have resigned from most of the LinkedIn
>groups I was was a member of, to prevent accidentally posting something
>which may give offense and might get me banned. Also I found myself
>avoiding responding to, or even looking at, postings in non-LinkedIn
>groups, in case there was something I might do wrong there.

An alternative approach would have been (could still be) to post an 
enquiry to each group that you'd previously posted to, explaining 
what happened, and asking for (off-list) communication from anyone 
who was offended by any of your posts.

It's possible that that may unearth some information.

And, in principle, the absence of any such report to you could be 
provided as part of your complaint to LinkedIn, which (given that it 
would be ignored) would then become part of your complaint to the 
regulator.

Oh, wait:

(1)  your request (especially if it contains such expressions as
      'Kafkaesque') may well trigger a filter, and result in:
      (a)  your request not reaching the groups
      (b)  you being banned for life (tough that)

(2)  in Americanese, 'regulator' probably means either FTC, or
      a lawsuit in Delaware, Arkansas, or whichever jurisdiction of
      convenience LinkedIn uses.  (In 2010, the Terms said California:
      http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/IU-SPE-T-LinkedIn-01.html )


My previous expressions of amazement about how bad LinkedIn really 
is, are in these papers:

http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/LinkedIn-1012.html
http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/IU-SPE-A6-LinkedIn.html
http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/IU-SPE-1012.html

They were working papers, supporting:

Clarke R. (2011)  'The Cloudy Future of Consumer Computing'  Proc. 
24th Bled eConference, June 2011, at 
http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/CCC.html


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