Well wake me up. Today I had three comments removed from LinkedIn. They were in response to a post by ‘Brian Johnsrud, Director of Education, Learning and Advocacy at Adobe | Board Adviser’. The comments were in relation to the following post;

Attached to the post was a link to an interview with Johnsrud conducted by Edsurge @ Edsurge.com

I had written some reflections in response to Johnsrud’s introduction and had not at that point addressed the interview itself. Must have hit a raw nerve somewhere. My comments were measured and respectful although a little tongue in cheek at times.

But after having dared to question an authority figure and being dealt with in a somewhat unprofessional manner Ithink I’ll give the article a shot and there’s plenty to shoot at.

In the last screenshot of the above you can see the text ‘3 comments * 1 repost’. So at 4.36 pm the comments were still up. However by 4.59pm they had been removed.

Who was responsible? I don’t know. Am I surprised? Not really. Am I bothered? No, my house is in one piece and my car hasn’t been firebombed, so all in all, nothing to complain about really. Admittedly, it’s a little bit of rubber burning but not so much as to warrant removal from an arena that should be able to tolerate some difference of opinion with just a smidge of dissent. Am I anti Adobe? No. Ironically I was on the beta team for ‘Project Luca’ before it became Adobe Slate and then rebranded to Adobe Spark. So well before Adobe Express was even envisaged I was well embedded and the first educator in NSW and probably Australia to make extensive use of what was on the table at that time.

Link to EdSurge interview with Johnsrud appears below.

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