December 15, 2020
The social media giants are currently protected by a key legal shield known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
If you think that the Microsoft owned social media platform LinkedIn is just about professional and business connections with no politics, you would be wrong. They appear now to be trending toward emulating their bigger social media rivals at Facebook, Google and Twitter in censoring those views with which they disagree. My second run-in with the LinkedIn censorship squad in as many months occurred recently when they removed a post linking to a new paper on global temperatures published by the CO2 Coalition. According to the LinkedIn censorship team, the post was removed because it “goes against our Professional Community Policies.”