[acqq]

They still want to enforce users to use "real" (for their definition of "real") names. As I write this, my profile is "suspended" because I didn't type my real name: "Your profile is currently under review to make sure it is in compliance with the Google+ Names Policy and User Content and Conduct Policy. Reviews are typically completed within a few days."

I also had to select "other" for gender, there's no option named "I just don't want to write it."

Yeah, sure:

"By focusing on you, the people you care about, and the stuff you’re into, we’re going to continue upgrading all the features you already know"

Context:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/10/google-nymwars-redux/

https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts/SeBqgN9Z...

[bo1024]

Yeah, no matter what they say about redesigns, I have trouble picturing G+ as a service designed to help make my life better. I just see it as a ploy by Google to get my personal data. It will take a lot for them to change that opinion now.

[iloveponies]

I decided to use a name that looked real, but isn't, and isn't mine. So far, I've yet to be caught by Google. The cost of this? Explaining to friends who don't know my opinion on anonymity on the internet.

[hub_]

They also have numerous number of people doing so. And people kicked for using their real name. Etc.

In short it just prove the unenforceability of the policy.

I heckled them about that in a conference and when offered to get help to have my account fixed, I declined saying that the only thing they need to fix is the policy itself by retracting it and apologizing.

[zedadex]

> I heckled them about that in a conference and when offered to get help to have my account fixed, I declined saying that the only thing they need to fix is the policy itself by retracting it and apologizing.

Brilliant.

[hub_]

I got my profile suspended because they didn't like the way I wrote my name.