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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google+ Ends Its *Real Names* Policy!
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Tue Jul 15 17:40:32 2014
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:07:22 -0700
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Google+ Ends Its *Real Names* Policy!
(Google+): https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/LarsUv3e6Wx
"When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of
restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped
create a community made up of real people, but it also excluded a
number of people who wanted to be part of it without using their real
names.
Over the years, as Google+ grew and its community became established,
we steadily opened up this policy, from allowing +Page owners to use
any name of their choosing to letting YouTube users bring their
usernames into Google+. Today, we are taking the last step: there are
no more restrictions on what name you can use.
We know you've been calling for this change for a while. We know that
our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some
unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users. For this we
apologize, and we hope that today's change is a step toward making
Google+ the welcoming and inclusive place that we want it to be. Thank
you for expressing your opinions so passionately, and thanks for
continuing to make Google+ the thoughtful community that it is."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
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