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LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

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Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#11

Post by nerdsniper »

altairprime wrote: post #6

Record a video of yourself manually doing this, and then file a small claims lawsuit demanding they restore your access with the video submitted as proof, once they eventually lock you out. You don’t have to claim for money, you can simply claim for restoration of service, or you can indicate that if they fail to provide access to your data, that you seek damages equal to the business and personal value of your “Rolo…

To be clear: there is no legal requirement for LinkedIn to restore service. They reserve the right to deny service to anyone for any or no reason.

But they might restore service even though the courts won’t “make” them.

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#12

Post by nerdsniper »

Grimblewald wrote: post #3

Not using linked in is the solution. It's a cess pool and terrible at offering what it advertises. I have a profile where my bio starts with the fact you wont reach me on linked in and to email me instead. This works for me, but mileage my vary.

Can’t apply to YC without a LinkedIn profile, AIUI.

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#13

Post by altairprime »

nerdsniper wrote: post #11
altairprime wrote: post #6

Record a video of yourself manually doing this, and then file a small claims lawsuit demanding they restore your access with the video submitted as proof, once they eventually lock you out. You don’t have to claim for money, you can simply claim for restoration of service, or you can indicate that if they fail to provide access to your data, that you seek damages equal to the business and personal value of your “Rolo…

To be clear: there is no legal requirement for LinkedIn to restore service. They reserve the right to deny service to anyone for any or no reason. But they might restore service even though the courts won’t “make” them.

Precisely :)

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#14

Post by santa_boy »

Peroni wrote: post #8
muzani wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does it offer? It's bad at jobs. But it's an alternative to business cards and Facebook.

Like it or not, LinkedIn is still by far the most used platform by recruiters (agency and internal) looking to hire. I despise the platform but it's undeniably valuable as your career progresses and the probability of being approached by a recruiter increases. Ultimately, if you're not looking for work, there's zero value in LinkedIn. Realistically, most people choose or need to look for a new job eventually and in t…

To add, I'm a year into starting my product-dev agency and trying with figure out a stable lead gen model.

Tons of courses and posts say that LinkedIn is their most effective Lead gen model.

I'm yet to make it work for me, but it seems like it works for them.

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#15

Post by convolvatron »

FistfulOfHaws wrote: post #2

Similar thing happened to me. Randomly one of my LinkedIn posts got a ton of likes, so I figured I would look through the list of people who liked and try to figure out where they were coming from/if they would be interesting to reach out to. After viewing a 100 or so profiles, I was logged out of LinkedIn and when I tried to log back in my account was suspended. I was in LinkedIn jail for like a week, and when I was…

they did the same to me just by going through the job listings and x-ing out the ones that I wasn't interested in. of course for some reason that doesn't really work, the keep coming back, but wth, might as well try to keep down the noise.

you have been suspended for the use of automation

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#16

Post by SpicyLemonZest »

Are you familiar with Cambridge Analytica? After a well-known 2018 scandal, we've decided as a society that we don't want social media platforms to allow this kind of large-scale extraction of other people's information. I'm sure you mean well, but you shouldn't build this list and Linkedin is right to prevent you from doing it.

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

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Post by jeffkumar »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #16

Are you familiar with Cambridge Analytica? After a well-known 2018 scandal, we've decided as a society that we don't want social media platforms to allow this kind of large-scale extraction of other people's information. I'm sure you mean well, but you shouldn't build this list and Linkedin is right to prevent you from doing it.

These are my first degree connections. I don't see what's wrong with getting a list of my own connections.

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#18

Post by bitfilped »

Peroni wrote: post #8
muzani wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does it offer? It's bad at jobs. But it's an alternative to business cards and Facebook.

Like it or not, LinkedIn is still by far the most used platform by recruiters (agency and internal) looking to hire. I despise the platform but it's undeniably valuable as your career progresses and the probability of being approached by a recruiter increases. Ultimately, if you're not looking for work, there's zero value in LinkedIn. Realistically, most people choose or need to look for a new job eventually and in t…

I've never needed LinkedIn in a 20 year career. I think you're way over estimating the so called "value" you get from this platform.

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

#19

Post by SpicyLemonZest »

jeffkumar wrote: post #17
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #16

Are you familiar with Cambridge Analytica? After a well-known 2018 scandal, we've decided as a society that we don't want social media platforms to allow this kind of large-scale extraction of other people's information. I'm sure you mean well, but you shouldn't build this list and Linkedin is right to prevent you from doing it.

These are my first degree connections. I don't see what's wrong with getting a list of my own connections.

What's wrong is that you're trying to violate their email privacy settings. The 5% of emails you did get are from the contacts who shared their email with you and enabled the "Allow connection to export emails" setting; the other 95% did not choose to let you export their email address, as is their right since it belongs to them.

Re: LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming

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Post by bitfilped »

Are you going to reach out to 200 people? I imagine only 1-2 of them can actually significantly advance your career in any meaningful way. Wouldn't your time be better spent cultivating relationships with those 1-2 peole rather than collecting data on 200 people who you're realistically not going to see any return from?
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