You won’t see me here on LinkedIn today, on Tuesday 28th of May – or any other Tuesday in the near future. We, and many other users, are boycotting this platform’s #censorship and constraints to #freedomofexpression around the violent occupation in Palestine and connected issues. 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸
Countless advocates for ending this genocide have been ousted, restricted and #shadowbanned, including our account, for nothing more than telling the #truth. LinkedIn is targeting anyone who reports truthful facts about this inhumanity and asks for institutional accountability. The negative publicity LinkedIn attracts with this policy largely outweighs benefits generated by leaving open space to Zionist propaganda. This stance does not make even business sense, as it tarnishes their corporate reputation as a ‘professional’ social platform. A professional platform should not filter and select content based on political bias. Individual followers can decide with their own mind which content they want to see based on their choice to follow certain accounts and reacting to content they wish to see more of.
Who would store their personal and sensitive data on a platform that actively promotes arbitrary political censorship and is politically aligned? This has to stop. Immediately. For the sake of the business future of this platform and our own freedom of expression.
We request that those users be returned to the platform and not harassed, restricted or down prioritised in the algorithm. All have followed community guidelines and have been unfairly targeted, including this corporate account. We all know this from personal experience, for which we now have irrefutable #factualevidence we are collectively willing to share with interested parties and the press. Every week tens of thousands of people around the world see this message, react and comment, as proof this is a real issue for many people, even if this a challenging topic to talk about.
A professional social media platform cannot promote censorship and forced political alignment, it goes against their professional ethos and reputation.
#NoLinkedInTuesday
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