I quit LinkedIn
I recently quit LinkedIn. Ironically, the post I made about why I was quitting was probably the most viewed thing I ever posted. Haha.
If you need to see my CV it's right here on my website:
This is what I wrote back in November:
I'm terminating my account on LinkedIn next week. This is possibly some kind of career suicide.
I'm very seldom visiting LinkedIn, so I'm probably late to the party, as usual. Perhaps there has already been a large exodus?
If you want to reach out to me outside of LinkedIn I welcome contacts primarily through e-mail at mc@hack.org, but see:
https://hack.org/~mc/contact.html
LinkedIn has been problematic for a long time. Today they started using user content for LLM training. You can opt out, but the default is that you allow it. You might want to look at your settings. Or leave.
The thing that made me take action is that LinkedIn removed "misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals" as examples of prohibited conduct. This is unacceptable. I can just apologize that I didn't discover nor take action earlier.
It was removed from:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1339812/?lang=en-US
The changes are tracked here:
Judging from some comments, I should make it clear that I think what is unacceptable is exactly "misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals". Trans rights are human rights!
Written by MC on Prickle-Prickle, the 62 day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3191 ().