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Avant Propos - having "Bernard ben Tremblay" suspended for "Name Violation"
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I have submitted this page to Google as identity / name verification.
Previously I had provided them with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and on and on ... even Blogger.com shows me using "ben"!
And with each submission (i.e. after each suspension) I need to provide not only these but also ... this is funny ... my G+ account number and ... ready for this? My name. Incredibly, Google is beginning to rank right up there with Lycos/Tripod for "inept".
BTW I've been using some variant of bentrem as online identity since 1995. That's 16 years. So now Google don't like it ... big bad google ... I'm numb with fear and dread. *NOT!!*
NB: Anyone going to my G+ account will not see anything like, "Account Suspended; Under Review for Name Violation."
I guess Google's masters of things social found that too difficult. Intead there's simply "Profile Not Found" (in oversized type, bold). Truly indicative of their attitude.
Before we get into the meat of things, this ... from Currently Google's "community standards" policy on names:
google.com/support/ ... ?answer=1228271 says that Google+ works "best" (and only) in the "identified state". This means that Google+ profiles are required to belong to a single human (businesses are not yet supported), and to "use the name your friends, family or co-workers usually call you".So spare me the, "You should be grateful. And remember that G+ is only alpha/beta/fieldtesting" ... if that's so, then why suspend accounts on such flimsy grounds? Folk who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag should just shush and go work at Google.
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Some time after my Google+ account was peremptorily suspended (and restored, after I edited the Name Field on Profile) I received the following from B++++, representing Google Profile Support Team (18:12 MDT; July 22nd): Hi Bernard,This post hoc information is materially / substantially different from what was communicated in the initial review notification, some hours earlier:: The reason your name violates our community standards is because of (ben).I had no intention of removing ben and so removed only the parenthesis. Minutes after having done so I saw that my account had been restored. (And I thanked them for their prompt attention. heh.) It was then that the statement of issue changed. Heck of a way to run a railroad! Evidently Google (as they did with policy regarding Business account) can't get its act together since late this morning my account was yet again suspended
Dear Google - *expletive delete* knock it off. Stop it. Grow up. Get a grip. How dare you tell me what my name is. Listen, I've worked hard tech. I know. You want your service to be canonical. Ok.fine ... sobeit. good luck with that p.s. You really are showing what Google is, and how it works. Arrogant, ham-fisted ... really, you are going to suffer for this.
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Google's ham-fisted, high-handed + suspensions
My posts via TwitLonger:- "CNet published "Google G+ faces thorny online identity issues"; my comment there.
- "In their G+ project has given us, the public, a look at how they get things done, more than we'd see"
- "If you're interested in how Google treats people, how the explain their policy (and fail to do so)...".
- on Point7: "Google+, the pseudonym banstick, and the netizen cultural schism"
- on CNet DeepTech: "Google+ faces thorny online identity issues"
- on TechCrunch: "Google Plus Has A Problem. Fear Not: I Have A Solution"
- +Emlyn O'Regan's: "This account banning is the equivalent of the privacy blowout at the beginning of Buzz", "now Random Geek is gone. ffs." and "Google+ has a policy of only using real names (real world identities) in profiles. And they’re enforcing that policy with a big lumpy banstick.".
- +Robert Scoble: "If you know someone that Google has suspended/deleted from Google+, add ..." and, slightly related, "in all the noise about deleted profiles it's interesting that I didn't see anyone pointing out that Techcrunch's founder, Michael Arrington, no longer has an account on Google+.".
- +John Hardy: "Great to see +Robert Scoble receiving so much push-back on this issue." and "Thanks Google. You fucked up AGAIN.".
- +Rob Gordon: "No one has supported the idea of getting rid of fake profiles more than I have, but ...".
- +Jay Blanc: "Things that might get you suspended from G+"; "Time for more Share and Re-Sharing"; "Apparently confirmed. If Google force a European Account Holder to have" and +Kryptyk Physh's comment thread on that post along with "Outstanding!".
- by Skud: I’ve been suspended from Google+ | Infotropism.
- Public Policy Blog: "The freedom to be who you want to be…".
contact: ben at ab006ATchebucto.ns.ca
bernard.d.tremblayATgmail.com
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