That government id thing is a joke. I get endlessly harassed to identify my identity with CLEAR, which I have no problem with in principle, but I have the practical problem that "it just doesn't work" and of course there is no helpdesk.
I can't believe at all that a verified badge would make any difference in whether or not LinkedIn users would trust this person:
UPDATE: After I posted here, within a couple of hours they sent me an email that "we have verified your information and removed the restriction from your account".
Coincidence? A very weird one!
Clarification: The account was locked for 2 days and as soon as I decided to write here about it TODAY, within 2-3 hours of posting here, they decided to sent an email out of the blue that they have reviewed my account, when I have attempted a request for a review via their helpdesk without any success; during the fill up form process it was redirecting me to other pages with plain data explaining to me what should I do with government ID verification process; that's all.
0xmattf 16 hours ago [-]
> I went through the stupid process of providing my government ID
I did this once in my life for my first ever Facebook account. I still could not proceed either, which made me even more annoyed. Now they have my ID stored somewhere. Will never, ever do that again.
chistev 14 hours ago [-]
My Facebook account got suspended and they asked for ID, I provided one and still didn't get my account back.
stefanos82 13 hours ago [-]
The whole situation is getting out of control; they have become completely useless using them nowadays. What's the point, really?
stefanos82 15 hours ago [-]
That's exactly what frustrated me the most!
petetheguy 13 hours ago [-]
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I can't believe at all that a verified badge would make any difference in whether or not LinkedIn users would trust this person:
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/117079988454949322
https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
Coincidence? A very weird one!
Clarification: The account was locked for 2 days and as soon as I decided to write here about it TODAY, within 2-3 hours of posting here, they decided to sent an email out of the blue that they have reviewed my account, when I have attempted a request for a review via their helpdesk without any success; during the fill up form process it was redirecting me to other pages with plain data explaining to me what should I do with government ID verification process; that's all.
I did this once in my life for my first ever Facebook account. I still could not proceed either, which made me even more annoyed. Now they have my ID stored somewhere. Will never, ever do that again.