Last week, as @Netguru, we supported “Strajk Kobiet” – the nationwide protests that have been taking place since Oct 22 in Poland – with a post on LinkedIn. 1/7

As usual, social advocacy evokes both engagement and controversy. This has probably been the most reacted to post we’ve had on our profile (1000+ mostly positive reactions & 35000+ views) and was picked up by the media in Poland. 2/7

And then it disappeared. No notice, no heads-up. Just gone. The link returned “not found”.

LinkedIn’s Helpdesk had no idea why it happened and responded sporadically. 3/7

Was it flagged? Deleted by a rogue employee? Did LinkedIn have an outage and kept no backup? Is there a secret government backed conspiracy to silence the protesters #tinfoilhat? No way to know. 4/7

Yesterday, it came back. Again: no notice, no heads-up, no response from Helpdesk. 5/7

Am I angry? Yes. Do I believe there is some conspiracy behind it? No. Most likely, it’s just an imperfect algorithm. 6/7

What’s frustrating is that there is no recourse. We (the society) have allowed private for-profit corporations to regulate what we can do and say online on their platforms.

Read the post at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6726889096968572929/

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