Google Pulls Back on Heavy-Handed Google+ Name Policy

In an sweat to fend off criticism ended its "real name calling" insurance, Google said late Mon that IT bequeath discontinue disabling Google+ accounts that break the policy–without admonitory the drug user outset.

Several Google+ users who recently found their accounts disabled because of the policy criticized the search company for beingness too heavy handed. Others argue that a level of anonymity should be afforded to users for a variety of reasons, including subjective, workplace-related, or even political.

Google's Bradley Horowitz shared the caller's new policy on literal name calling in a Google+ Wiley Post connected Monday night. "We've detected that galore violations of the Google+ common name policy were in fact well-intentioned and inadvertent and for these users our process can be frustrating and disappointing," he admitted.

With the adjacent update to Google+, accounts would no longer be out of action for violations of the insurance. Alternatively, Google would institutionalize a warning to the user openhanded him or her time to fix the issue before the company suspends the account. It would besides change the signup process to alert users to possible nominate issues right away.

Horowitz added that the company famed that users edit their profiles to make the name show a nickname, maiden name, or personal verbal description. He asked that users proceed these names to the "Other Names" field of the profile, where they will still embody searchable.

Those with suspended Google+ profiles should know that simply Google services that require a Plus visibility will be inaccessible, while services that preceptor't — Gmail, Blogger, Docs, and so forth — testament still work.

"We'll proceed working to dumbfound better, and we appreciate the feedback– and the passion –that Google+ has generated," Horowitz wrote.

I tranquil don't think this change fully addresses the issue. The likes of my colleague Sarah Jacobsson Purewal argued earlier Tuesday, in that respect are many valid reasons for why somebody wouldn't need to show their true identity along Google+, or any other social mesh for that matter.

If these common people are not doing anything illegal, surgery using the account maliciously, why should Google care at completely? What's the purpose? I'm not seeing cardinal.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/481368/google_pulls_back_on_heavy_handed_name_policy.html

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