Michael Schmitt Facebook ad: “This should worry anyone who depends on LinkedIn…”

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This should worry anyone who depends on LinkedIn for work, business or professional visibility. When a platform becomes part of your working infrastructure, an account restriction is not just a small technical problem anymore. It can interrupt communication, damage credibility, affect company pages and cut people off from contacts they may have spent years building. That is exactly why the current pattern around LinkedIn restrictions deserves much closer attention. At Malta Media, we have experienced this directly. The personal LinkedIn account of our Editor-in-Chief, Michael Schmitt, was restricted, and the consequences were immediate. Malta Media itself was temporarily offline on LinkedIn, although we were able to recover the page through another administrator. Other connected profiles and pages, including Trider, Brannon, Easy Design and Michael Schmitt, remain offline. What makes this even more concerning is that public Google reviews show many other users describing similar frustrations. Recent complaints mention restricted accounts, broken verification flows, CAPTCHA loops, login freezes and support routes that seem difficult to use once access has already been removed. Some users say their accounts were restricted suddenly, others say identity verification failed repeatedly, and several describe being stuck without a clear route back. That is not just a bad app experience, that is a trust problem. Of course, LinkedIn needs rules and security systems. Nobody disputes that a professional network must protect users from spam, fake accounts, impersonation and abuse. But when genuine professionals, jobseekers, business owners and publishers say they are locked out without meaningful human support, the question changes. At what point does platform safety become platform overreach? We have published the full article on LinkedIn (see the comments for the link) because this issue needs a wider discussion. Account restrictions, verification loops and inaccessible support should not become normalised as the cost of using a professional network. LinkedIn asks people to build their professional identity inside its platform, so it should also provide a reliable, transparent and accountable way back when something goes wrong. #LinkedIn #DigitalTrust #PlatformAccountability #BusinessRisk #SocialMedia