yeah, the heavy-handedness. When ALL of your google services are disabled (gmail, picasa, youtube, docs, groups), just because they didn't like your pseudonym on G+, that's just stupid. And while paying lip service to the problem (and restored services to some of those affected, but not all), they haven't really either admitted they were wrong, nor responded with an official policy update that says they won't do something that stupid again.
Facebook's case at least has some press about it - the fake accounts have actually been used for cyberbullying, and the suicides got quite a lot of press. Their "solution" doesn't solve the problem in the slightest, but at least they had an explanation.
Google is actually trying to argue against anonymity and pseudonymity on philosophical grounds, on the idea that anonymity itself is simply inherently evil or wrong. For being full of supposedly smarter people, it is a VERY stupid thing to be doing.
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Date: 2011-08-21 11:51 am (UTC)Facebook's case at least has some press about it - the fake accounts have actually been used for cyberbullying, and the suicides got quite a lot of press. Their "solution" doesn't solve the problem in the slightest, but at least they had an explanation.
Google is actually trying to argue against anonymity and pseudonymity on philosophical grounds, on the idea that anonymity itself is simply inherently evil or wrong. For being full of supposedly smarter people, it is a VERY stupid thing to be doing.