My expletive-ridden blog post about Google’s fucked-up “real names” policy and their brain-dead implementation has gone global.
While my editor at Crikey commissioned an article, To Google, we are data fodder, and I am an unperson, the story was picked up by an American political blog and linked to by The Wall Street Journal.
The post has been viewed at least 6000 times, probably many more. So far.
I’ve just written a lengthy response to the 127 comments so far. I do think that people who say “It’s only a beta” and “It’s just a bug” and “Well it is a free service” and “What do you expect with a weird name?” have entirely missed the point.
That, too, will probably offend people.
And now my work here is done.
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