Google is gagging user advocates

The title should be clear that the advocate or advocates in question here are Google employees. That doesn't make any gag right, but it is <i>vital</i> context.

I wonder if this is related to Steve Yegge standing up in front of the entire Internet and saying that Google+ is a huge waste of time. That happened on the 25th as well, and could easily have annoyed a VP to the point of prohibiting negative comments by Google employees.

What a ridiculous mess. It would not surprise me if it's come to this. When all else fails, whip out the lawyercats.<p>How much will it take to make people quit(quitquit)?

This sounds like a classic conspiracy theory. How exactly could Google defend itself, even if it wanted to?<p>Citizen: The government is dissecting aliens!<p>Government: Uh, no we're not.<p>Citizen: Further proof that you are!<p>This sounds a lot like that.

That they would do that to Liz is ... disappointing. (Otherwise biting tongue, for her sake.)

I can't take this article seriously. That page and this post/article/whatever is a mess. It's like I'm reading forwarded emails from my mom.

Google+ on its present trajectory is headed to the deadpool.

I like Google and I really hope this isn't true.

I would imagine a large part of this is that if someone launches a lawsuit, anything said will be twisted into an admission of guilt or at least knowledge of the offense.

This is getting silly and borderline paranoid. I think this whole pseudonym thing is an overreaction, and an unfair criticism to an incomplete project.<p>As for the this 'gag' stuff she offers no proof and seems like she is just conveniently picking narrative to complement her disapproval.<p>Just let it go already.