https://chris.boyle.name/tags/identity/ identity | Chris Boyle Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://chris.boyle.name/blog/2011/09/rel-author-nymwars/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://chris.boyle.name/blog/2011/09/rel-author-nymwars/ <p>Over the past month or so, the &ldquo;nymwars&rdquo; have become the thing Google+ is most known for among my circle of friends. This is a problem of Google&rsquo;s own making: they are suspending profiles based on naive heuristics about &ldquo;real names&rdquo; (actually typical two part western names), and demanding government ID to reinstate them.</p>