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CASE DOSSIER: AVINASH SINGH
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You Are Not Alone

Product managers, software engineers, recruiters, and founders routinely wake up to find a decade of career equity wiped out by opaque algorithms and unhelpful support macros.

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Documenting systemic platform bans across the tech industry

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u/product_lead_sf 11 Years on LinkedIn
VP of Product Connecting with industry conference speakers

"Sent 15 connection notes to speakers at a design conference over an afternoon. Account was restricted that night. Sent my passport via Persona. Three days later got a template stating "severe violations, decision is permanent". Over a decade of recommendations and professional history gone without human review."

Support Rating: 1/5 ★
August 2026
u/devops_nomad 9 Years on LinkedIn
Senior Staff SRE Corporate VPN / IP Address change

"My company switched VPN gateways from US-East to Europe. LinkedIn immediately locked my account claiming "suspicious automated activity". Did the ID verification twice. Received the exact same canned email twice saying "we will not interpret our terms". It felt like talking to a broken Markov chain."

Support Rating: 1/5 ★
August 2026
u/recruiter_truth 13 Years on LinkedIn
Principal Talent Lead Manual tab browsing on Recruiter search

"I opened candidate profiles in new tabs during sourcing. No third-party tools, just Chrome tabs. Got slapped with a temporary restriction that was immediately turned permanent when I explained I was manually sourcing. Lost my network of candidates accumulated over 13 years."

Support Rating: 1/5 ★
July 2026
u/startup_founder_in 8 Years on LinkedIn
Founder & CEO Adding company team members

"We raised our seed round and I went to add 10 newly hired engineers to our company page. Account flagged. Submitted Aadhaar/Passport. Kept getting responses from different support consultant names that were 100% identical copy-pastes down to the punctuation. LinkedIn is a monopoly and acts like one."

Support Rating: 1/5 ★
July 2026