LinkedIn permanently suspended my account in September last year. When I appealed their decision, I received a message saying: “Your account has violated the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. Due to the number and/or gravity of these violations, this account has been permanently restricted.”I asked for specifics regarding the content that had triggered this action but at the time, LinkedIn refused to give any. They didn’t even tell me which post of mine had violated their content policy. I appealed to LinkedIn multiple times through their customer care, uploaded my photo ID each time (mandatory for appeals) but was simply met with a definitive, unemotional, no-questions-answered rejection. A sudden break-up can be tough but being ghosted is just confusingly painful.The last post I’d made was the day before my suspension. It was about the exploitation of lower-rung workers in digital startups in India. It contained a particular reference to Swiggy, an Indian food delivery service startup. This suspension didn’t come out of nowhere. I’d received two temporary account suspensions before, a few months earlier. I didn’t realise it initially, but each of my suspensions came after a post or comment of mine criticised a prominent corporation or their employees. Of…
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LinkedIn Kicked Me Off, Without Really Telling Me Why
