Interesting Links for 25-7-2011

[andrewducker]

• Community Standards: A Comparison of Dreamwidth and Google+
  (tags: community dreamwidth standards internet)
• Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims...Except the 99.6% that Aren't
  (tags: terrorism europe islam statistics politics)
• Four Things Google Plus Could Do To Fix Google Plus
  (tags: identity google googleplus)
• Greener pastures: How cows could help in the fight against climate change
  (tags: ecology farming views cows)
• Hong Kong people using full English names get Google profile suspended for "not using real name" on Google Plus
  (tags: google googleplus identity)
• Vote here on whether Google should allow pseudonyms (not that I know if it will make any difference)
  (tags: google googleplus pseudonymity identity)
• No, no, no - the best post I've seen on Amy Winehouse's death.
  (tags: AmyWinehouse death addiction music)
• Gay Couple Told to Move to Back of Bus
  (tags: homophobia usa)

Comments

[jack]

"Hong Kong people using full English names get Google profile suspended for 'not using real name'"
"Gay Couple Told to Move to Back of Bus"

We need some sort of standardised heuristic for noticing "Oh, hey, the last time someone did this it exploded into a massive clusterf*** maybe we should avoid it this time?"

We could call it a brain</sarcasm>

[darkoshi]

This post seems not to have gotten crossposted to LJ. Perhaps LJ was down.

I didn't realize that Google+ requires real (or "common") names. That puts me off wanting to even try it out. Then again, I've often used pseudonyms on other sites that stated they required real names and personal information. So much so, that after signing up, I don't usually remember which ones do or don't require it. I've never had an account deleted because of it (nor even gotten any warnings), like has happened to the people on G+.