Gerhard Schröder
Excitement about nude photos in his LinkedIn post
Former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reacts to threatened blocking of his LinkedIn account.
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Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reacts to the threat of blocking his LinkedIn account because of "too much bare skin".
Former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (76) reacts to the threatened blocking of his LinkedIn account. "I've already experienced quite a few political and media controversies – I'm not really surprised. But the fact that #LinkedIn is now contacting me is a new experience for me too," Schröder writes on the platform. What particularly surprises him is the request of the social network that he should "remove his post from the platform" because it shows "too much bare skin" and thus "offends against the statues of the company".
Then Gerhard Schröder explains again what exactly he had posted one day ago: "It was about a video from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin that interviewed me on the occasion of Helmut Newton's 100th birthday," said Schröder. Of course, the clip also shows pictures from the museum: "Self-confident, undressed women whom Helmut Newton had photographed," he sums up. For him this is art that can also be presented in public.
He then presented his case to the LinkedIn community for discussion and posted "a cut summary" of the original video, which he could no longer show.