LinkedIn blocked me

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+title: LinkedIn Blocked Me
+date: 2024-07-30
+tags:
+  - untagged
+---
+
+LinkedIn has blocked me.
+
+> We first need to verify your identity to ensure your account safety. 
+> To regain access to your account, please submit a government-issued ID.
+
+I hope I don't sound too much like a crackpot by stating that I'm not
+comfortable "submitting a government-issued ID" to Microsoft.
+I presume they really mean "submit a photograph of a government-issued ID",
+but still.
+
+LinkedIn was the only social media network I ever joined,
+and days after doing so,
+I regretted it.
+Other people have good write-ups of why it's problematic.
+For me, the short version of the story is that
+it was a lot of dumb stuff I wasn't interested in.
+
+I remember trying to get a certification in the Go language.
+They asked me about all kinds of compile-time flags on Windows
+that I had never used, since I was doing all my development on Unix.
+I failed the certification attempt,
+which is okay,
+because I could continue to write Go programs without it.
+
+Anyway,
+my LinkedIn account is now frozen in whatever state I last left it.
+If you send me messages there,
+I won't get them.
+I probably wouldn't have gotten them anyway,
+since my messages were mostly recruiter spam.
+I think I linked to woozle.org from it,
+but I can't even pull up my own profile without logging in,
+and I can't log in until I let the drop my driver license or passport in whatever database they run.
+
+I 5-10 years everybody will hate LinkedIn anyway,
+so I guess I'm just ahead of my time :)
+
+![screen shot of LinkedIn telling me I'm blocked](cancelamento.png)