Vic Gundotra: Pseudonyms are coming to Google Plus

This still misses the issue by making a distinction between "real names" and pseudonyms in the first place. Fine you might now be able to go by a pseudonym, but are you still required to sign up with a Google Approved real name? Will Lennart Poettering's Google+ be unbanned? [<a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name.html" rel="nofollow">http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-doesnt-like-my-name....</a>] Will they keep auto banning names they don't like? They seem to continue to fail to get it. :(

Let's wait for official word, instead of rumor. This twitter-able statement doesn't really say anything except that Google is listening... It doesn't say what they heard, or what the full reaction to it is.<p>He states that they are 'moving away' from the Real Name policy, but... Is that his interpretation of what was said, or was that actually said? We don't know. He probably doesn't even know.

Why is identity tied to a name? Identity is such a fluid construct, and the arbitrary forcing of it into First/Surname seems on one hand anglocentric, and on another hand, trying to impose on online identity the vestiges of real-world identity that we don't need on here.<p>I would think given the discourse around online identity (i.e. <a href="http://www.juliandibbell.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.juliandibbell.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.mit.edu/~sturkle/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mit.edu/~sturkle/</a>), including feminist discourse, socio-political, etc that we would beyond this.