My satire breaks LinkedIn’s professional community policies
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
In case anyone wonders why I routinely get shadowbanned here, my absurdist, surreal and totally invented satire posts fly directly in the face of LinkedIn’s “Professional Community Policies”.
Especially when I post totally deadpan satire in a serious way as if it were factual.
(Time Travelling Ducks, Electric Cows, Liquefied Natural Electricity, etc.)
My intention is to nudge Critical Thinking in readers, while providing some offbeat, silly humor.
Randomly switching back and forth between writing serious posts and totally absurd posts means my regular readers here need to use Critical Thinking to decide if I am being serious or sarcastic, or both.
And sometimes I blur the lines and slip in truth zingers inside the absurdist posts.
But this tends to violate LinkedIn’s “Professional Community Policies”.
Because of this, I am restricted from access to “Follow Link” in LinkedIn’s “Creator Mode”.
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For access to Follow link, you must meet the following requirements:
– You have abided by our Community Policy Guidelines
– Your account is more than 48 hours old
– You have no spam flag in the last 30 days
– You have no egregious violations in the last 12 months
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If you use LinkedIn’s “Creator Mode”, you can go to your profile and click on “Show all analytics”.
Check to see if your status is marked with a green “Available” for:
– LinkedIn Live
– Newsletters
– Follow Link
If any of these 3 items are marked with a grey “Learn more” instead of a green “Available”, then you are in the doghouse at LinkedIn for violating their “Professional Community Policies”, and the visibility of your posts will likely be restricted.
Samples of things which are banned by LinkedIn
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“Examples of false or misleading content that is removed under this policy
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– Claims or statements that directly contradict medical guidance from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO)
– Medical misinformation about the treatment, prevention, variants, and transmission of COVID-19, including claims that:
– Medical or non-medical grade masks cause negative physical side effects
– Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine are effective in the treatment or prevention of COVID-19
– Approved COVID-19 vaccines may cause death, infertility, miscarriage, autism, or contraction of infectious diseases, including COVID-19
… Medical misinformation about the prevalence or severity of COVID-19, including claims that:
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– The virus and all variants have been eradicated
●●●》or that the pandemic has ended
– The symptoms, mortality rate, or infection rate of COVID-19 are no more severe than the seasonal flu …”
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●●●》Note that LinkedIn official policy above is that the Covid pandemic has *not* ended.
More general info here: