I have been censored and kicked out of LinkedIn after decades :-)

[fullautotrading]

I need to inform my many followers, who are probably wondering why I disappeared from LinkedIn.
I am not actually dead already, even if not so young

I have been a LinkedIn user for decades. (Actually probably one of the first users.)

With thousands of connections and several groups created.

In particular, I have created (among several others) also 2 specific trading groups (one of which is dedicated to Interactive Brokers users specifically). These groups had several thousands of users each.

I have also been keeping, for years, detailed trading journals there - as I do here on Elite Trader - even with difficulties, because their layout, unlike this forum, imho is very poor at presentation, and very difficult to place pictures and explain things in detail (as you need for a trading journal/diary).

Over the years I have also contributed with innumerable posts. Always professional and polite, even when expressing criticisms.

Now, coincidentally after some criticisms on my part about the insane AI hype and propaganda (Bing, etc.) and some criticisms (always polite and well-argued on each point) about Jim Simons, I have been kicked out of LinkedIn, and all my data and profile erased from view.

Thank you, Satya
(If I remember correctly, I also read several posts on LinkedIn affirming you are a genius )


For the sake of transparency, let's report some sentences from Wikipedia about LinkedIn:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn
"
In June 2016, Microsoft announced that it would acquire LinkedIn for $196 a share, a total value of $26.2 billion, and the second largest acquisition made by Microsoft to date. The acquisition would be an all-cash, debt-financed transaction. Microsoft would allow LinkedIn to "retain its distinct brand, culture and independence", with Weiner to remain as CEO, who would then report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.


False and misleading information[edit]
LinkedIn has come under scrutiny for its handling of misinformation and disinformation.[194] The platform has struggled to deal with fake profiles and falsehoods about COVID-19 and the 2020 US presidential election.[195][196][197]


Perkins lawsuit[edit]
In 2013 a class action lawsuit entitled Perkins vs. LinkedIn Corp was filed against the company, accusing it of automatically sending invitations to contacts in a member's email address book without permission. The court agreed with LinkedIn that permission had in fact been given for invitations to be sent, but not for the two further reminder emails.[86] LinkedIn settled the lawsuit in 2015 for $13 million.[87]
"

 

[earth_imperator]

Censorship has become a problem, especially in the lying "Free-Speech West"...

 

[fullautotrading]

Google vs Bing

Yes, that is really too much text for the year 2023

"
Questo e' tipico della cultura di Microsoft che percepisco. Prevaricazione e propaganda invece di contenuti veri e combattere con i fatti anziche' la vuota propaganda. Pensano che postando n-mila post al giorno sulla presunta "Intelligenza Artificiale" di Bing possono trasformare una cosa che non ha mai veramente funzionato in qualcosa che non sia largamente eclissata dalla superiorita' concettuale e tecnologica di Google. Francamente io non conosco nessuna persona intorno a me che usi Bing invece di Google. Semplicemente non trova le cose e non fa il suo lavoro.
Ho provato a tradurre questo testo su Bing. Ecco la risposta.
"

 

[hilmy83]

I need to inform my many followers, who are probably wondering why I disappeared from LinkedIn.
I am not actually dead already, even if not so young

I have been a LinkedIn user for decades. (Actually probably one of the first users.)

With thousands of connections and several groups created.

In particular, I have created (among several others) also 2 specific trading groups (one of which is dedicated to Interactive Brokers users specifically). These groups had several thousands of users each.

I have also been keeping, for years, detailed trading journals there - as I do here on Elite Trader - even with difficulties, because their layout, unlike this forum, imho is very poor at presentation, and very difficult to place pictures and explain things in detail (as you need for a trading journal/diary).

Over the years I have also contributed with innumerable posts. Always professional and polite, even when expressing criticisms.

Now, coincidentally after some criticisms on my part about the insane AI hype and propaganda (Bing, etc.) and some criticisms (always polite and well-argued on each point) about Jim Simons, I have been kicked out of LinkedIn, and all my data and profile erased from view.

Thank you, Satya
(If I remember correctly, I also read several posts on LinkedIn affirming you are a genius )


For the sake of transparency, let's report some sentences from Wikipedia about LinkedIn:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn
"
In June 2016, Microsoft announced that it would acquire LinkedIn for $196 a share, a total value of $26.2 billion, and the second largest acquisition made by Microsoft to date. The acquisition would be an all-cash, debt-financed transaction. Microsoft would allow LinkedIn to "retain its distinct brand, culture and independence", with Weiner to remain as CEO, who would then report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.


False and misleading information[edit]
LinkedIn has come under scrutiny for its handling of misinformation and disinformation.[194] The platform has struggled to deal with fake profiles and falsehoods about COVID-19 and the 2020 US presidential election.[195][196][197]


Perkins lawsuit[edit]
In 2013 a class action lawsuit entitled Perkins vs. LinkedIn Corp was filed against the company, accusing it of automatically sending invitations to contacts in a member's email address book without permission. The court agreed with LinkedIn that permission had in fact been given for invitations to be sent, but not for the two further reminder emails.[86] LinkedIn settled the lawsuit in 2015 for $13 million.[87]
"

Do you have an email from linkedin indicating the reason for being kicked out of Linkedin. I find it hard to believe disagreeing on linkedin about AI and Jim Simmons got you kicked.

 

[fullautotrading]

Hi hilmy83,

Yes, I have their email, but do you really think they will ever tell you the real reasons?

"Dear Tom, we are kicking you out because you are pissing us off by criticizing all our occult advertising and all the idiotic hype on AI and Bing." )

They would create any random excuse, instead.

Since I have been doing exactly the same things for years and decades, I know perfectly a couple of things (mentioned above) that were "new" lately, so, it is pretty obvious to me what are the "real" reasons.

"You have also pissed off our friend Jim, who would like to pay to get rid of you because you criticized the posts where he is depicted as a genius and compared to the legendary Warren Buffet" )

Would you like to read that in their email? Not going to happen LOL


Here is their email and my reply:

The "notice page" did not link to any notice and gives a login screenshot, where I am asked for an official document (passport, ...).

My reply:

I have no idea what comments are being targeted, since they are not indicated
The only thing that lately was new is some conceptual criticism about AI tools and "quantum" finance.
I have been keeping a journal for years.
Apparently, my critical comments about artificial intelligence (AI) tools and "Quantum" finance annoyed LinkedIn advertisers

, as they restricted my access and asked me to submit an official ID .
Ridiculous censorship!
These tools aren't going anywhere anyway.

Very ridiculous also to ask for an official ID: when the CEO of LinkedIn sends me his ID

, I will start thinking about it )
Goodbye,


I sent also complaint to the Authorities:

Garante per la protezione dei personali -
Responsabile della Protezione dei dati personali,
Piazza Venezia, 11, 00187, Roma

Frankly, I do not give anything that all my contributions have been removed from the Site.

I realized in time, the actual participants are relatively very few and most traffic is automation. (I obtained much more valuable and powerful contacts from my algorithmic trading website, in a few months than from LinkedIn in decades. Actually, I was the one generating good traffic for them

Unfortunately, imho, it has become also an advertising machine with tons of brain-washing propaganda (both on "technologies" of interest of the owner, but also political (Ukraine and so on), which I do not care about, but certainly pollutes the environment and does not look professional).

Quite frankly, I don't feel I lost anything and I am perfectly cool. If they were intelligent they are the ones to feel a loss.
One of the rare specimens of a non-fake user, with real-world, common-sense comments )

Apparently, for some ingenious people, suppressing the criticisms is easier than acknowledging them and making things right

 

[alistera]

Don't worry I've been kicked off or threatened with such in some places as well the past weeks after years of participation, it's actually very simple, everyone is lying themselves senseless which automatically means they need to lie to everyone else, however they have all run out of liquidity and are defaulting at the speed of light.

Anyone coming along with the ability to say those lies are not true, or worst yet, anyone coming along with something that actually works and shows other things are garbage such as prop firms, then those 'evil doers' have to be systematically removed.

For example the latest is that after being in discussions with many crypto funds to use some arb fintech they actually run as prop firms taking in investor capital, pass that to third party non-affiliated traders to trade without the investors knowledge, which creates massive NAV whipsaws like 90% down to 30% in a year.

Now you know that the traders have no knowledge they are trading investor capital, not the prop firms capital, and someone's head is going to roll as the regulators gather steam. It's not going to get better, basically you broke someone's 'pyramid' at the worst time possible and they were not happy.

 

[fullautotrading]

That is right, alistera

The situation is still pretty bad in the "trading world". Several people come from a very disturbing culture where often there is no integrity whatsoever, and no transparency, and having to deceive themselves and others at all costs seems the norm.

Even though I have been developing and trading algorithmically for decades, I come from a totally different background, and I remember, initially, the shock of interaction was quite great. After more than 25 years of listening and interacting, I still cannot take the blatant nonsense and especially the intentional intellectual dishonesty.

When I hear people talk of "quantum finance" (some even with a Ph.D. in physics) or, for instance, the hammering propaganda of what a great trading genius is someone who has been laundering, in an armored black box, all their life, the Colombian cartel $$$ and amassing billions in the Bahamas and using it for political protection or for pathetic self-aggrandizing publicity, I just can't take it and have to say something about it.

Of course, they are free to kick me out, since it's their application.
A lousy one, imho, but still theirs

But, frankly, I not only do not care, but actually I take pride in being kicked out for such reasons

Sending a request to upload a passport or an official ID is also something really ridiculous and quite abusive to do. LOL, do they need my official data so they can send me a threatening letter?

This reminds me of when I was working with the Italian Prosecutor ("Corte dei Conti") in the case of alleged misconduct of Moody's and other two rating agencies (February 2014).

When the Prosecutor ("Corte dei Conti") sent the official documents for citation to their official address, they came back with the message that they were unable to find Moody's (not a joke: this is a real story, that I have witnessed firsthand)

Don't worry I've been kicked off or threatened with such in some places as well the past weeks after years of participation, it's actually very simple, everyone is lying themselves senseless which automatically means they need to lie to everyone else, however they have all run out of liquidity and are defaulting at the speed of light.

Anyone coming along with the ability to say those lies are not true, or worst yet, anyone coming along with something that actually works and shows other things are garbage such as prop firms, then those 'evil doers' have to be systematically removed.

For example the latest is that after being in discussions with many crypto funds to use some arb fintech they actually run as prop firms taking in investor capital, pass that to third party non-affiliated traders to trade without the investors knowledge, which creates massive NAV whipsaws like 90% down to 30% in a year.

Now you know that the traders have no knowledge they are trading investor capital, not the prop firms capital, and someone's head is going to roll as the regulators gather steam. It's not going to get better, basically you broke someone's 'pyramid' at the worst time possible and they were not happy.

 

[alistera]

But, frankly, I not only do not care, but actually I take pride in being kicked out for such reasons

I thought I was the last one, happy days.

https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...work-for-near-free.374762/page-2#post-5826076

This is the perfect example of just how far the world has turned upside down, it's funny because only a couple days ago I posted a realtime video with 1.5% profit on Tesla in 40minutes using the HFT algos, there's the series "The Last of Us", my wife and myself see these people as "mushrooms", we find it quite funny.

Last year someone had to perform a small Changelly transaction, simple but it got held up in compliance and what they asked for was a little strange, anyway I decided to do some diligence and came across someone who had the same problem.

This guy investigated the company and turns out those documents end up in Eastern Block countries which apparently are used to spoof accounts, it's like what happened with Einstein and Nuclear Power which he forever regretted providing the calculations because they made weapons instead of cheap global energy.

We have the same thing, the amount of diligence we have to do is quite obscene anyone using the fintech, 95% are trying to use it as leverage to absorb investor capital and then pass the liability on, offering very slow small unit return profiles to 'test' the relationship and they lose it, they don't have the time

A company tried the same thing a few weeks ago because no one has anything legitimate that works any more as their NAV whipsaws from 90% to 30%, they need what you have but have no capacity to do it fairly, on the call they actually became abusive because they didn't get what they wanted.

I've been putting it off for a few years but time has come to activate the HFT returns, not to make more profits but to expose less capital to the markets, it's hard work but if you have $100,000s and $millions exposed in the environment today, with everyone lying senseless and zero backup from any agency, it's the only play left to make sure you have stability as the world unravels.

 

[newwurldmn]

Hi hilmy83,

Yes, I have their email, but do you really think they will ever tell you the real reasons?

"Dear Tom, we are kicking you out because you are pissing us off by criticizing all our occult advertising and all the idiotic hype on AI and Bing." )

They would create any random excuse, instead.

Since I have been doing exactly the same things for years and decades, I know perfectly a couple of things (mentioned above) that were "new" lately, so, it is pretty obvious to me what are the "real" reasons.

"You have also pissed off our friend Jim, who would like to pay to get rid of you because you criticized the posts where he is depicted as a genius and compared to the legendary Warren Buffet" )

Would you like to read that in their email? Not going to happen LOL


Here is their email and my reply:

View attachment 317300

The "notice page" did not link to any notice and gives a login screenshot, where I am asked for an official document (passport, ...).

My reply:

View attachment 317301


I have no idea what comments are being targeted, since they are not indicated
The only thing that lately was new is some conceptual criticism about AI tools and "quantum" finance.
I have been keeping a journal for years.
Apparently, my critical comments about artificial intelligence (AI) tools and "Quantum" finance annoyed LinkedIn advertisers

, as they restricted my access and asked me to submit an official ID .
Ridiculous censorship!
These tools aren't going anywhere anyway.

Very ridiculous also to ask for an official ID: when the CEO of LinkedIn sends me his ID

, I will start thinking about it )
Goodbye,


I sent also complaint to the Authorities:

Garante per la protezione dei personali -
Responsabile della Protezione dei dati personali,
Piazza Venezia, 11, 00187, Roma

View attachment 317302


Frankly, I do not give anything that all my contributions have been removed from the Site.

I realized in time, the actual participants are relatively very few and most traffic is automation. (I obtained much more valuable and powerful contacts from my algorithmic trading website, in a few months than from LinkedIn in decades. Actually, I was the one generating good traffic for them

Unfortunately, imho, it has become also an advertising machine with tons of brain-washing propaganda (both on "technologies" of interest of the owner, but also political (Ukraine and so on), which I do not care about, but certainly pollutes the environment and does not look professional).

Quite frankly, I don't feel I lost anything and I am perfectly cool. If they were intelligent they are the ones to feel a loss.
One of the rare specimens of a non-fake user, with real-world, common-sense comments )

Apparently, for some ingenious people, suppressing the criticisms is easier than acknowledging them and making things right

my guess is you were flagged for claiming you are a professor (and thus an expert on these topics). I'm not saying you aren't an expert, but i bet you get reinstated when you verify you are who you say you are.

Or you posted something far more egregious and you don't want to admit it.

 

[fullautotrading]

LOL, I do not know any "professor" expert or profitable at trading
Being a professor and a profitable trader/fund manager is, usually, pretty much an oxymoron

Last time I checked, they were still playing with some retarded "predictive" model

I never "claimed" anything in my post, I just wrote in my profile what I am and what I do. (I am a faculty since 1990. So nothing uncommon.)

Sure, as you say I must have posted something that, by someone, was considered "egregious". That is the point I am actually making

I am quite well-known in the community and my posts are always pretty clear. There is no need to establish my identity. You can ask anyone who is on LinkedIn.

The problem is that the "real" interacting users are now relatively very few. (Social media seems to provide little value in terms of useful networking, compared with other venues, including direct contact through the website.)

Well, if they reinstate me, I will probably erase my account anyway. As, at this point, I do not wish anymore to be a part of a propaganda machine

To me is just easier and more effective to recreate the entire social media: at least I can ensure the integrity and no brainwashing retarded propaganda and idiotic hype whatsoever. In addition, the layout and presentation are very inconvenient. This is something I really like and applaud about this site (ET), which would be my "role model" if I embark on something like that )

my guess is you were flagged for claiming you are a professor (and thus an expert on these topics). I'm not saying you aren't an expert, but i bet you get reinstated when you verify you are who you say you are.

Or you posted something far more egregious and you don't want to admit it.