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Thoughts on rel=author, #nymwars, “identity service”

5 September 2011   🏷 gplus 🏷 identity 🏷 nymwars

Over the past month or so, the “nymwars” have become the thing Google+ is most known for among my circle of friends. This is a problem of Google’s own making: they are suspending profiles based on naive heuristics about “real names” (actually typical two part western names), and demanding government ID to reinstate them.

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