I got off most social media a few years ago but I stayed on LinkedIn because I mostly needed it for work and I'd built a bit of a platform for myself on there. I'd been using the site to megaphone this site so my friends and followers would remember to check in on updates, but I started running into some issues with LinkedIn trying to censor me.

I first noticed it the other week where it seemed like my post was shadow banned and despite getting good initial engagement, the impressions froze up.

Then earlier this week a post where I featured some of the art on here triggered an alleged terms of service violation. I say alleged because they provided very little information. Just them saying my post was harassing a member of the site (I never tagged or mentioned anyone in the post).

A friend of mine tagged some LinkedIn execs and I got an email from the escalation team about it, but they couldn't provide any additional information. They wouldn't explain or show me how my post violated whatever policy they were claiming.

I went back and looked at the initial notice I got on the website and things got even more absurd when I realized the thumbnail it provided was a very hopeful piece of art that was mostly copy wishing for a better world.

Anyway, I took to LinkedIn to try to make some noise about it.

I was eventually talked into taking it down, but I'm posting it here for posterity along with the communications I had with the LinkedIn team along with the violation and supposedly offensive image.