Suspended on Google+

[rigel]

This morning, I bopped on over to my Google+ account to add some folks and post something. In trying to do so -- add people or post -- I found I couldn't. I couldn't even get to my Circles page.

And then I tabbed over to my Profile page, and found out why. It was suspended for violating their Community StandardsIf one goes to said page, one

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[oscuridad]

Seriously. Neil Gaiman wrote a blog entry about it that pretty much sums up my opinion. I think I am going to delete my account tomorrow.

[spacehawk]

Yes, exactly. Do you have to provide a valid state ID, driver's license, passport or birth certificate?

I am assuming "Google checkout" is a commercial sort of service. So if it is unsafe for one to use their current legal name to make purchases (or certain purchases), then they're unable to make purchases through the site, because they cannot do that under a "pseudonym"?

So many ways this can go wrong.

[plymouth]

I don't think it's unreasonable to require financial transactions to use a real name due to the massive massive amounts of fraud that go on. Not that real names will make that totally go away of course but it will make it easier to track.

[curiositykt]

It's the same thing over at facebook.

[curiositykt]

technically facebook just hasn't caught them yet. They have the same policy.