Google [briefly] suspends Limor Fried's ("Ladyada") Google+ profile

I don't understand why everyone is giving Google a pass by saying they are in beta.<p>A link didn't get broken, a photo didn't fail to load...instead an account was suspended intentionally. That has nothing to do with being a beta, and has everything to do with Google being a company that spits on its users.<p>A company that actually cared about their users would just fix the error and edit the name or simply send a warning...instead Google goes for the kill shot each and every time.<p>Crap like this is exactly why people should be wary of putting in the effort to switch over to Google plus...for all you know you might end up losing everything a few months later

I just saw this and passed it on to the right folks in Google+.<p>Added: Looks like it's back now. The field test is definitely helpful for finding corner cases that we can improve before rolling out more broadly.<p>One small thing: If you do the query [site:plus.google.com ladyada] on Bing, it looks like Bing has an older version of the profile. The title for that search result is "Adafruit Industries - Google+" So my quick guess is that the name of "Adafruit Industries" might have been the issue. Either way, I'm glad that it's solved now.

She's prominent enough that I'm sure they'll reinstate it.<p>Guys, it's a <i>beta</i> right now. This is why. Part of signing up for G+ at this time is volunteering to be a bug tester.<p>She found a bug that where it allowed here to put quotes in her name, even though she's not supposed to.

The reason for suspension is probably the quotes in her name. A Google engineer on g+ posted that you should not have any special characters in your name to avoid getting suspended.

funny that its still in googles cache: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jiwjaQHd7HAJ:https://plus.google.com/108772200278976934119+Limor+%E2%80%9CLadyada%E2%80%9D+Fried&#38;cd=13&#38;hl=en&#38;ct=clnk&#38;source=www.google.com" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jiwjaQH...</a>

Google+ is bullshit. We want something better than Facebook, but with Buzz and Google+, Google has shown they have even less respect for user privacy. I'm deleting my account and (pessimistically) crossing my fingers for Diaspora.

This article is written to sound like the suspension was due to blantant sexism, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that. Almost certainly just a innocent misunderstanding.