MuscleNerd's Google+ Account Suspended for Using Pseudonym

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Posted July 25, 2011 at 3:42am by iClarified

MuscleNerd, a highly regarded member of the iPhone Dev-Team, has had his Google+ account suspended for using a pseudonym.

"Google+ suspended me for using the only online name I've *ever* used..."

Google is enforcing a real name policy on their new social site, Google+, which is generating a lot of negativity towards the service.

Jay Freeman, founder of Cydia explains his thoughts on the matter:

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Personally, I think this state of affairs is ludicrous... Google's attempts to enforce what a name is don't even stand up to the test of multiple cultures, much less the test of an online pseudonymous world. +Gowtham S, even, was forced into the position of specifying a last name, something he does not actually have, and therefore falling back to an initial of his father's first name.

Meanwhile, one of my real-life friends, due to a very complex situation involving her parents' names and legal status in various countries, has a compound last name involving a hyphen, a slash, and a set of parentheses: a name that certainly contains more than enough symbols to drive Google+'s new rules past that brink of "fails when confronted with real world data".
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MuscleNerd's Google+ Account Suspended for Using Pseudonym

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ron2k_1 - July 25, 2011 at 2:50pm

Lots of people in the jailbreak community will be affected as I have already seen comex, geohot and ih8snow already there.

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PReaper - July 25, 2011 at 8:06am

Thanks to Google+ I've started to get spam mail in my inbox..

Nobo1 - July 25, 2011 at 7:14am

Facebook practically forced me to do the same! I used a pseudonym for 6 yrs until shitbook threatened to block my acct unless I input my real name.... However I used another pseudonym which keeps them happy for now....

Breix - July 25, 2011 at 5:53am

So strict! It's like you are getting forced to put all your data in a form that supposed to have an "optional" thingy.. Right googz!? Come on face it Google.. Not all people wants to put there whole info. Especially when things around the net are hackable.. Ever think about that..?

Waskslicaig - November 3, 2011 at 9:31pm

What about the English invent football championship?

NeHoMaR - July 25, 2011 at 4:27am

It's possible to legally change name to Muscle Nerd, and then sue Google.

PReaper - July 25, 2011 at 8:05am

If they still deny him after changing name, yes.. :p

PReaper - July 25, 2011 at 9:55am

Pretty much the same chance as for you being dropped on the floor when being borned.. ;P