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Ignoring the ethical question of whether or not Google deserved to receive your legal name, and the ethical question of whether or not it should have forced sai
by saraid216 12y ago
Ignoring the ethical question of whether or not Google deserved to receive your legal name, and the ethical question of whether or not it should have forced said legal name onto you as a real name,
The policy was more than just "put in your real name lol". It was also about banning accounts that didn't have a real name, even where those names were legal. It was about an appeals process when you wanted to show that your name was legitimate even when the algorithm disagreed.
And these things were not clear.
Don't get me wrong; I've regularly defended G+ and I've used the service since being an early adopter and I find the claims that it's a "wreck" or a "ghost town" to be completely bunk. But the names policy was not clear. This isn't an ethical or philosophical question. This is just flat-out clarity. And it wasn't.
- bronson 12y agoI don't quite understand. > It was about an appeals process when you wanted to show that your name was legitimate even when the algorithm disagreed. If you show your driver's license to Google, and they still don't accept it, then they are behaving irrationally. But their policy is clear as day. > It was about an appeals process when you wanted to show that your name was legitimate even when the algorithm disagreed. Again, it sounds like their algorithm was buggy and wrong. But it doesn't affect their presentation of their own policy.