Techno Fascism, the Real Menace of present day society.

My LinkedIn account has been doxxed. Turns out I was "warned" back in May of 2022 about content related to 2000 Mules that I had posted, and to not do it again. If only I had been warned! Linkedin's finest had first removed my content, then warned me. So when I went to see what LinkedIn had removed, it was no longer visible. 

I opened up a complaint with LinkedIn. My request was, "Can I see, see what you deemed offensive so I don't post something like it again". I went back and forth a few times with a LinkedIn representative who danced around the issue of my being able to see what had already been removed. Instead, the LinkedIn representative justified the blatant mistake the technology side of LinkedIn had made by claiming the content was so dangerous it could not exist in any form. But what was "it" that had been removed? I had no idea, and apparently neither did the rep since they were unable to show or tell me what LinkedIn had removed.

Fast forward 3 months and suddenly my account has been "restricted".  After a four day wait a customer service rep contacted me and presented three items related to 2000 Mules from 75 to 90 days earlier and that I must promise to never post fake news again before I would be reinstated.

As you can see in the image above, I now have 118 notifications I cannot view. Stranger still, my connections who happen to want to either message me or read my latest content, will not have access to anything I have ever done on LinkedIn, and may mistakenly assume I blocked them.

I replied to Linkedin's claim about my prior 3 violations that I had no idea about my prior violations and that it was unfair to suddenly say I had three violations when I never got the prior ones. And here is where Techno Fascism again rears its bass ackwards bullying.  Having first wiped clean my first two violations in such a manner that I could never see them, LinkedIn deemed those first two violations my warnings, warnings with no way to view what the content was that had been removed!

So when LinkedIn Techno Fascist software found a third violation, I was deemed me to be non compliant and I would have to admit to violating their agreement terms and that I would not do it again. Of course, I cannot do that. I cannot agree to self libel and self slander my own reputation when I was never given an opportunity to see the first or second posts they did not approve of.

Imagine a stop sign has been knocked down in your local community and is no longer visible in any way shape or form, but a camera continues to monitor who does not stop. Would it be fair to assess several dozen did not stop tickets all at once when there was no sign present? Of course not. The person would need to be warned that although there is no stop sign, one must stop anyways. And that is all I ever asked for. Let me see what it is you deem a violation or I may end up doing it again and again because I have no idea what it was that was deemed a violation.

For the naysayers who are thinking, you must have known and are playing coy, I can 100% say I absolutely did not know which post of mine had been removed for a variety of reasons. I post numerous things every day, and the original warnings did not state a time or date stamp, but even if they had, I still would not know what post I had made without actually seeing it. 

LinkedIn also has a method where one can see what post might have been reported as objectionable, and a member can ask for a second opinion. But in these specific instances there was no way to view the posts because they had been permanently removed prior to my getting a warning, and therefore having no way to review the removed content.

Fortunately for me, I managed to stumble across my May 2022 LinkedIn complaint where I made it abundantly clear that I would like to learn what content I had posted that was considered a violation. I have now submitted that trouble ticket and am hopeful that the representative handling my case will see that I made a very legitimate effort to see what it was I had posted that was deemed a violation so I could learn and not do it again.

But, because this is techno fascism, the next issue I may be up against is the customer service representative not having the option to remove my second and third violations until I admit I did wrong, when I obviously had no idea since I was not allowed to see either my first or second violation.

The timing of this doxxing by LinkedIn may have had unfortunate consequences for me as I was working on multiple projects at the same time. And yet, I refuse to bow down to techno fascism, and you should to. Don't just assume you have no rights, make sure you always file a complaint when something happens that makes no sense, and hopefully a real live human will have the authority to over ride the latest brand of techno fascism that reminds me a lot of how truly authoritarian Governments around the world control their people.

 

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