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Do you have some examples of the cases you refer to?

by raldi 15y ago

msbarnett 15y ago
Lennart Poettering pops to mind: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name....
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joeyh 15y ago
Well, it seems that Google thinks "Poettering" must be a made up last name. Guess whatever they er, googled doesn't know who wrote that avahi code they're surely running. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name....
rst 15y ago
Ironically enough, Chinese residents in Hong Kong who do in fact go by Anglo names (an expression of their mixed cultural heritage in a former British colony) are getting systematically bounced: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=40356d87de8509c0&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=40356... By some accounts, this is the reason for the odd "in one language" qualification in the Google Plus notions of what a "real name" ought to be. FWIW, there's at least one American-born Chinese who's gotten similar treatment: Ping Yee, who got bounced because someone insisted that his only Real Name (TM) was Ka-Ping Yee --- which is what it says on his birth certificate, but which no one (even family) uses much. http://zestyping.livejournal.com/259131.html http://zestyping.livejournal.com/259131.html What makes this one particularly odd is that Ping is a Google employee (or at least, he was at the time). I suspect Anglosphere-born Chinese who go by "Alexa Chung", or whatever, aren't getting this level of systematic grief, but that only makes things more ridiculous: why should the acceptability of a name depend on where someone lives?
- kragen 15y ago
  To be totally nitpicky, while Canada is in America, a lot of people might think that by "American-born Chinese" you mean "US-born Chinese", but Ping was born in Canada.

Do you have some examples of the cases you refer to?

by raldi 15y ago

Do you have some examples of the cases you refer to?

Lennart Poettering pops to mind: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name....

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joeyh 15y ago

Well, it seems that Google thinks "Poettering" must be a made up last name. Guess whatever they er, googled doesn't know who wrote that avahi code they're surely running. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name....

rst 15y ago

Ironically enough, Chinese residents in Hong Kong who do in fact go by Anglo names (an expression of their mixed cultural heritage in a former British colony) are getting systematically bounced: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=40356d87de8509c0&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=40356... By some accounts, this is the reason for the odd "in one language" qualification in the Google Plus notions of what a "real name" ought to be. FWIW, there's at least one American-born Chinese who's gotten similar treatment: Ping Yee, who got bounced because someone insisted that his only Real Name (TM) was Ka-Ping Yee --- which is what it says on his birth certificate, but which no one (even family) uses much. http://zestyping.livejournal.com/259131.html http://zestyping.livejournal.com/259131.html What makes this one particularly odd is that Ping is a Google employee (or at least, he was at the time). I suspect Anglosphere-born Chinese who go by "Alexa Chung", or whatever, aren't getting this level of systematic grief, but that only makes things more ridiculous: why should the acceptability of a name depend on where someone lives?

kragen 15y ago
To be totally nitpicky, while Canada is in America, a lot of people might think that by "American-born Chinese" you mean "US-born Chinese", but Ping was born in Canada.