Thanks for nothing, jerkface | ZDNet
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[Sergey] Brin told the audience at boutique Bay Area tech conference Recode that he was “kind of a weirdo” and that, “it was probably a mistake for me to be working on anything tangentially related to social to begin with.”
(...) it became clear that a company we trusted couldn’t be trusted at all.
The #Google+ so-called “#real_name” policy can best be described as a confusing, velvet-glove-cast-in-iron policy where users of Google+ are required use their birth or government ID names — and when flagged, must prove it, and submit official documentation as proof.
Google began its “real name” enforcement with mass Google+ account suspensions and deletions shortly after Google+ launched in July 2011. The whole mess is called Nymwars.
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