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Why I don’t give a “flying fuck” about LinkedIn restricting my account: It’s because the platform, in my opinion, has an equality and equity problem. More concerning for me is that the platform and/or its administrators take a condescending approach to African American, Black, and Brown user-generated content, which I’ll concisely explain in paragraph three below.
1. LinkedIn touts itself as “the world’s largest professional network with more than 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.” Technically, LinkedIn is both a social media and social networking platform. Speaking to how professional the platform might be is to say that it has become annoyingly littered with fake profiles. The users of those fake profile accounts troll the hell out of legitimate users. Likewise, the so-called professional network is bustling with unprofessional content and user dialogue. Meaning substandard content and activities that deviate from the platform’s overall mission statement.
2. Due to LinkedIn’s ongoing and aggressive Emotional Intelligence/Emotional Quotient (EI/EQ) communal initiatives, site administrators and/or the platform’s self-regulated algorithms promote a lot of content that tends to be intrusive and feeds on user profiles, personalities, and interests, which in turn can be perceived as antagonistic and nurturing an online experience of division, exclusion, intimidation, and the marginalization of certain ethnic groups. Not to mention LinkedIn spams itself, which makes for hypocritical TOS. Further, the platform is inundated with all sorts of biases, racial epithets (PDF), and perhaps, in many instances, concealed hate speech that often goes ignored.
3. The content of African American, Black, and Brown users (whether it be highly sophisticated or elementary in presentation) tends to accumulate far fewer likes than that of its white counterparts. The mysterious differences in likes can range into the tens of thousands regardless of whether or not the information is asinine, culturally related, socioeconomically related, environmentally related, or has variations in peer groups and educational levels. Lastly, in my opinion, LinkedIn has an enormous body of government representatives from various countries that troll users with the intent of either modifying their behaviors or silencing them altogether. The upper management of LinkedIn, which I believe to be either puppetized technocrats or heavily influenced by the company’s shareholders, the U.S. government, the corporate media, Silicon Valley oligarchs, or senior Ivy League academics, manages the platform based on those particular interests. As a result, users could be targeted for their opposition to those groups, ultimately resulting in antagonistic reprisals, account suspensions, or complete removal from the site by the administrators that run it.
That is why I don’t give a “flying fuck” about LinkedIn restricting my account. Candidly speaking, I want all of my content posted on LinkedIn deleted, and the site’s administrators cannot profit from it in any way, shape, or form.
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