I’ve been suspended from Google+
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I’ve been suspended from Google+
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Re: I’ve been suspended from Google+
#2Welcome to what I call Google's vision of an "Orwellian Computing Age". Your every action & communication will be monitored, and your entire digital identity can be deleted by a centralized, seemingly autonomous authority. Better comply with the TOS or you might get yourself "ungoogled".
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#3I like being able to create new identities for different purposes. Why wouldn't Google+ allow that?
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#4"To help fight spam and prevent fake profiles, use the name your friends, family or co-workers usually call you." And this is what bothers me about this whole ordeal. Google's playing a stupidly dangerous ( in regards to making people want to use their services ) game of determining whats a "real" name before we're asked of all things to show our ID? That's a little absurd for a social networking client.
We get why you're doing this, you're fighting this the wrong way.
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#5I'm not sure I understand the real name policy of either Facebook or Google+. Isn't the whole point of a social graph that it is personally curated by me? The identities of my friends/circles are verified by me.
Re: I’ve been suspended from Google+
#6Welcome to what I call Google's vision of an "Orwellian Computing Age". Your every action & communication will be monitored, and your entire digital identity can be deleted by a centralized, seemingly autonomous authority. Better comply with the TOS or you might get yourself "ungoogled".
Because, you know, Google+ is completely mandatory and there are no alternatives and you're not allowed to create or even think about an alternative or you'll be arrested or killed.
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#7Welcome to what I call Google's vision of an "Orwellian Computing Age". Your every action & communication will be monitored, and your entire digital identity can be deleted by a centralized, seemingly autonomous authority. Better comply with the TOS or you might get yourself "ungoogled".
This sort of comment is more suited to Reddit. Or Youtube.
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#8I like being able to create new identities for different purposes. Why wouldn't Google+ allow that?
Eric Schmidt:
The people who built the Internet did not get a stable
version of identity; You need identity, in the sense that
you are a person, this is who you are these are your
friends and so on … The issue on the Internet is not the
lack of Facebook, the issue on the Internet is the lack
of identity.
See also http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author .
Re: I’ve been suspended from Google+
#9Welcome to what I call Google's vision of an "Orwellian Computing Age". Your every action & communication will be monitored, and your entire digital identity can be deleted by a centralized, seemingly autonomous authority. Better comply with the TOS or you might get yourself "ungoogled".
Why I downvoted you: Objective discussion which leads to new ideas and solutions is generally hampered by name calling and over-generalization, which just leads to "my side is best, your side sucks" ... "no, my side is best, your side sucks". Add in the emotional charge, and people forget to think about what they say before they open their mouths.
I think you might have a point lurking in your polemic, like "I am afraid Google will start to monitor and try to control its users and content too closely, and as evidence I present their behavior on x, y, z." Why don't you rephrase with evidence, specificity, pragmatic alternatives, and scrubbed of ad-hominem name-calling?
(One of these days I am going to write a "Rhetoric for Hackers"...)
Re: I’ve been suspended from Google+
#10I'm not sure I understand the real name policy of either Facebook or Google+. Isn't the whole point of a social graph that it is personally curated by me? The identities of my friends/circles are verified by me.
What if I want to find someone I met ten years ago and have no idea what nickname they have chosen? What about friends of my friends?
If one does not agree with the policy—just don't sign up. I find fake names on Facebook really annoying.