Well, the FBI Can't Search Me on LinkedIn Anymore

Ten Reasons You Should Get Off Social Media

I have finally fully deleted my LinkedIn account. Here’s the backstory:

First, the FBI Searched Me on LinkedIn:

You may have read, and even commented on, my article on Thursday in which I posed the question When Is Violence Justified in Response to Totalitarianism?

Well, apparently the FBI was interested in the question too, because within a couple hours of sharing the article to LinkedIn, I got this notice:

Sure, it could be a coincidence, but the timing is certainly interesting. In the words of The X-Files’ Fox Mulder, “If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?”

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Coincidence or not, it is an interesting topic for discussion, because exactly this sort of thing does happen all the time.

Before Obama’s slow-motion coup replaced the leadership of the FBI (and CIA and Pentagon) with left-wing operatives, the FBI regularly took a look at people and entities on both the left and right in order to scan for domestic threats. In any conventional analysis, this makes sense.

Now, however, the Department of Justice is, for obvious partisan reasons, concentrating on putatively “right-wing” domestic ‘threats.’ (keep reading)

Then, LinkedIn accused me of “hateful speech.” For this post. Can you find the “hate” in there? Because I cannot.

I had been contemplating reducing my online footprint for quite some time, and this provided a good spark to begin doing it. I am getting off of all social media (except for Substack notes)—beginning with LinkedIn, obviously.

And why not? Think of it…