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I recall the "clown" posting. Some 6th sense told me to be excessively careful when responding to the conversation - I didn't get banned.

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They were having tons of personal digs at me and I even asked them to play the topic and not the player, act professional. Yet they continued.

Paul, please, please careful going forward as you and I have often been in some tough conversations. This cancel culture is real. I suggest backing out and not engaging toxic people.

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Under their GDPR,

it says "You have the following rights under the GDPR:

"Access your personal data

Correct errors in your personal data

Erase your personal data

Object to the processing of your personal data

Export your personal data"

This was their reply

"We cannot extract any account connections or profile data. We apologize for any inconvenience this has been to you"

Five minutes later, I get this email:

"We're sorry to see you go

Your LinkedIn account is now closed. Although you no longer have access to it, it'll take a few weeks for your public profile to disappear from search engines.

You may still receive invitations from LinkedIn members and groups.

You may reactivate your account within 14 days from today by signing back in, or if you wish to reactivate within the next 48 hours, you may use this link: Reactivate my account

Thanks,

The LinkedIn Team"

I tried, it did not work. Yep they are sorry as in "Don't let the door hit you on the way out" kind of sorry.

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Yesterday I dealt with our first ever GDPR SARS request. 2 hours after it arrived with the Dev team we produced a 40+ tab spreadsheet to respond, and we now have a script to cut our response time to sub 5 minutes. Re: "We cannot extract any account connections or profile data" that's a breach of the law. Not sure it would be useful to chase; better to chase competitive practices law perhaps. But I'm not an expert and LinkedIn is not your employer so HR law might be misleading.

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Could someone contact Marcello Lopez and ask him to post this in the Scrum Practitioners group. I have asked LinkedIn to transfer ownership of the group to him as not to destroy the community.

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When anyone objects to what I say, I engage with them once to thank them and to address their views but that’s it.

I don’t respond to follow ups as there’s little point.

Ive had to turn on the ‘no more notifications on this topic’ recently on LinkedIn as someone I once tried to coach who happens to be an ultra scrum guide purist (Very b/w approach to life and very argumentative in work too) tried to bait me on what self management means.

He’s off the opinion that teams should be able to bake cakes all day if they want to even if they are employed to build software. I simply couldn't be bothered with him anymore.

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Hello Brett,

I have spoken with Marcelo. If you have a post here that you would like us to publish on Scrum Practitioners let me know. We will publish in the group, make an exception to “no links in original posts rules.” I know our members will appreciate your sage advice on Scrum, you were on role there with new posts before this unfortunate event.

-Brad

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I am shocked to hear this. I read nothing in your post that warrants a ban, and sadly nothing in your comments that makes me feel hopeful the decision will be reversed.

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Marcelo is now the owner of the group.

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LinkedIn were actually going to delete the group. Eventually they agreed to make one of you the owner. I actually had to question if they were going to punish 142000 people. I was just shocked they would just delete the group.

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They even commented over your messages to Marcella and me: "This message may contain unwanted or harmful content."

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😭

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Have been following you for a while now, Brett. You have been a source of valuable and thought-provoking insights. Absolutely shocked and heartbroken for you. Hoping this gets resolved asap.

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Thank you Daniel, that means a lot to me and really helps how I feel today.

Unfortunately the cancel culture is real and it hit me hard for after a long slur of personal attacks, calling that person a clown. Funny, that person was not banned but I am. LinkedIn have said their decision is final. Reading up on this and other peoples experiences, they will not budge and even legal battles are pointless.

I will post here for a bit and figure a way to rebuild my community.

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What the heck is going on here?

Has LinkedIn lost all manner of reason?

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YEP! You get personally attacked and the you ask them to remain professional and they continue. Then you eventually say I am out, your a clown. That with the fact that someone is actively targeting my posts as "spam". Together LI Police see it as bad and boom ... judge, jury and execution.

They have deleted my account, so there is no going back.

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I hope this is resolved and quickly for you Brett! Loved seeing your thoughts and ideas crop up in my feed!

(Let me know if I can help!)

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Thank you Dave.

It is hard to chat to them because you need to log in to create a case, and I cannot do that. I received an email and have been talking to them over email and have appealed it, but got this reply

"LinkedIn has reviewed your request to appeal the restriction placed on your account and will be maintaining our original decision. This means that access to the account will remain restricted."

I have been researching this legally, but it seems like a closed case and permanent.

I will be posting here and will see if I can join LinkedIn as a new profile, but that means I have to build up from zero. I have resilience and prepared to do that, but this time it will be totally different from me.

I just have to get over this devastating thing on such a petty issue, then come up with a plan of action.

I am open to suggestions.

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