The biggest travesty of Google+'s "real name policy" was that it wasn't a real name policy at all; it was a "no unusual name policy". Some people who used their

The biggest travesty of Google+'s "real name policy" was that it wasn't a real name policy at all; it was a "no unusual name policy". Some people who used their real name got blocked because their name was unusual, while people using a normal but fake name were left alone. The only way to enforce a real name policy is to require legal ID, but that opens people up to identity theft. You'd basically have to have an official government-issued internet identity that you can use to log into other sites, which is fine under a benevolent government, but not in a dictatorship.