LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment
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The site listed thousands of people and grouped them by their workplaces after they posted on the Israeli-Hamas conflict.

LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment.::The site listed thousands of people and grouped them by their workplaces after they posted on the Israeli-Hamas conflict.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The website, which was taken offline for a day before being migrated to a new web address, named employees of major international corporations, including Amazon, Mastercard and Ernst & Young, and shared their profile photos, LinkedIn pages and posts.

    Similar lists have also been created to track college students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians, while Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, said it took down nearly 800,000 pieces of Hebrew and Arabic language content for violating its rules in the three days after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7.

    Now located at an Israel-specific domain, the site is being overseen by Guy Ophir, a lawyer in Israel, who said the team moved it to a new address after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from LinkedIn.

    A spokesman for LinkedIn said the company determined that the site had used automated programs to extract content from the platform, a practice known as scraping, which is a violation of its rules.

    The site has been a subject of discussion at Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and LinkedIn, where employees have expressed concern about the chilling effect it could have on online speech.

    “People are scraping pro-Palestine LinkedIn posts and adding them to a database of ‘terror supporters,’” one employee wrote last Wednesday in a note on an internal Meta message board that was seen by The Times.

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    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      Israel has not done anything out of their M.O. recently, maybe some people are just paying attention for the first time?

    • BlueBockser@programming.devEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      Ah yes, there’s nothing like blaming a whole country for the actions of a specific group. You’re doing the exact same thing as people who blame all Palestinians for the Hamas terrorist attacks.

      Edit: Downvote all you want, it’s still hypocritical.

  • serial_crusher@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just don’t want to hire the sort of person who posts their opinions about world politics on LinkedIn, regardless of what particular opinion that is. LinkedIn is for work stuff, and I don’t want to work with people who can’t separate that stuff from work.

    • Slowy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      1 year ago

      That would track if it was anti or pro but it seems to be specifically aimed to censor one side

      • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Is anyone scraping LinkedIn’s data to compile and shame pro-Israeli / anti-Palestinian sentiments and thereby creating a need to censor “both sides”?

        It’s an honest question because I don’t know. But being pro-Israel is certainly the default majority/establishment stance right now, with pro-Palestine a vocal minority (at least in the West), so directly comparing them ignores the relevant nuances.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        39·
        1 year ago

        A commercial website taking a stance on my politics is unwarranted. You make money off of my being there. Stfu unless I break the law.