LinkedIn is cracking down on hate speech and abuse

You’d think a social network for professionals would be a professional place, yet LinkedIn can be no different from Facebook or Twitter at times when some bad actors choose to abuse and insult other LinkedIn users. With that in mind, LinkedIn appears to be cracking down on abuse and hate speech on its platform. The company has announced its new Professional Community Policies in a blog post and says it will begin cracking down on users that break those policies. One of those new community policies is to “be nice”: