Why LinkedIn is deleting account of youngest SpaceX engineer – Times of India

Elon Musk-owned SpaceX hired Kairan Quazi, its youngest engineer earlier this week due to his academic accomplishments and skills rather than his age. But it seems that LinkedIn has a problem that he is 14 years old. The Microsoft-owned professional networking platform has removed Quazi’s account.Quazi said that LinkedIn sent him a notice saying they are deleting his account because he is not 16.LinkedIn’s user agreement notes that all members must have a minimum age requirement of 16 years to meet the criteria to make an account on the platform.”This is the illogical, primitive nonsense that I face constantly. I can be qualified enough to land one of the most coveted engineering jobs in the world but…” he said in a tweet.LinkedIn also said that Quazi will be welcomed on the platform when he turns 16 or older and that the platform has cancelled his Premium subscription and issued a refund for any charges incurred.Who is Kairan Quazi?Quazi quickly became famous after he reportedly posted on his social media handles that he has joined SpaceX. In a post, he thanked the space company for being “one of the rare companies that did not use [his] age as an arbitrary and
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