If they really wanted the users to “truthfully and authentically” represent themselves, they should ban everybody
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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Guess its time to delete my LinkedIn. Maybe I should inform them of why im doing it while I'm at it.
Edit: And done, I explained why I did it. I hope you all do the same. Sarah is a human being who deserve to be treated like one just like the rest of us. Capitulation to this administration makes you just as much of Nazi in my book. Trans people are just the first group to be marginalized, we are all next.
I'm glad my account is back and they're allegedly going to be using my experience as a template for future situations like mine
What more could you want after an ID mismatch experience?
For the company not to have done it at all. It was very clearly a capitulation to the Trump administration, not a mistake, but a deliberate action. I don't support companies that capitulation to these fascist fucks.
For it to have happened as a matter of course, and not when they faced the prospect of bad press over it, for a start.
There's some poor underpaid people somewhere doing nothing but comparing account names to photo ID, of course they don't have a say in it
Policy say click button if don't match
You know that's not what I'm saying. They would have been content to leave this woman without her account except that the threat of them looking worse in the media was held over their head. That's the part that shouldn't have happened. No company should be allowed to terminate an account used in the professional sphere while leaving no recourse to reclaim the account or appeal the decision in a straightforward and relatively low effort way.
Wait since when did you need ID for LinkedIn?
linkedin only existed when i was unemployed and desperate
I absolutely cannot stand the fact that I have to be on LinkedIn to find a job.
It's so shitty.
Our hiring process is so fucking broken but we live with it because we don't care to make it better.
Linkdin eventually fixed it once their media team got wind that this is about to break into a massive story.
How many other people remain banned that doesn't have a following to raise the issue for media to pick it up?
Oh I'm not at all supporting LinkedIn in this. Only that this person was able to get their issue rectified since they were able to make waves.
It sucks that that's what it took
This is a “great” time for companies to get away with absurdly backwards decisions. For all we know, they’re doing it in an attempt to appease Trump. They could just be assholes who made the decision without regard to politics, sure, but the deniability is there.
It’s a good time to try a bunch of stupid shit. The administration will not enforce regulations or laws. You can blame everything on AI. And there’s all this market volatility, you have an easy excuse for shareholders.
As mentioned previously, I have a weird Rupert J Farnsworth name; it's the only thing I inherited from a very mean grandfather. I don't use that name anywhere; even my mom has called me something else since birth.
If LinkedIn found this out, they'd delete my account, I guess, because I don't use that name there either.
Wheeee.