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Cancel culture has caught up with me and Linkedin has restricted my account without warning. This restriction involves removing all traces of me from linkedin. This is a ‘restriction’ in the sense of ‘total removal as if I never existed’. There is an appeals process that I am going through out of a sense of morbid curiosity. I may write about this Orwellian process at a later date. If my profile is restored I will be a lot less active in Linkedin, not to safeguard the future of my profile on linkedin because now I understand that my profile is subject to arbitrary removal at any time. There is no point building my profile and creating traffic on linkedin. I need to have an alternative, so…….
I realized that Linkedin was the only public profile that I have for myself. I need either a backup or a main public profile I can rely on. Mike – our web supremo is looking at setting up a resume posting service on abbottaerospace.com so I can post an online resume as a backup/alternative to other services or as my primary public profile. We are looking at making this available as a free service to anyone who wishes to use it.
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