| Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/22/11 6:56 AM | Explain your issue in full detail here:I don't see any field that I can talk about my situation with the Google guys so I will post this here. Recently my Google+ profile together with my buzz got suspended.They first told me that maybe I have "poste |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/22/11 7:51 PM | Some examples of Hong Kong people using such name formats that Google+ stuff will see as "not using real name", for the 3 word form. Karl Vito Lam: https://plus.google.com/115173141908891094860/ Kursk Edward Yau: https://plus.google.com/111439971675 |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | shava23 | 7/24/11 5:24 AM | We need to do some consciousness raising. Please consider assisting with this project? http://bit.ly/PlusInclusive We are trying to show how eurocentric, among other things, the "real names" policy is. G+ has a great potential, and traditionall |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/24/11 9:38 AM | hi Shava, I can write you articles about 2 things, if you don't mind doing some proofreading. And we will have to spread it on Google+ too. 1.The real name policy disregards cultural differences (like in Japan staying anonymous is a norm ,the Hong Ko |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | M.I.H. | 7/24/11 10:32 PM | I posted a question in the GooglePlus discussion section, but I'll go ahead and repeat the question here -- does Google, Inc. have an office in Hong Kong? But I am also posting here because I am wondering if there is the same level of censorship in |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/24/11 11:25 PM | hi M.I.H. Sorry I just received the notification and did not reply on time:P Few things.1.NT is part of Hong Kong like Kowloon and Hong Kong island, just a name. >_> 2.They do have an office here, but seems nothing to do with this case. The guy cont |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | JohnInHK | 7/25/11 2:06 AM | I ran into this situation too, even worse, my Google account has been completely disabled since last Friday(22/07/2011). All my important information in Gmail, Google Docs, Google reader were locked, and this turned my Android phone into garbage, I p |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | WisTex | 7/25/11 8:21 AM | Apparently Google needs to find a better way to handle this. I am hesitant to rely on Google services due to such heavy handedness and lack of notification and recourse. I am not knowingly violating the TOS but what if I accidentally do one day. I |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/25/11 11:19 AM | Just received a reply from our beloved Bayle, he approved the "normal part" of my name, insisted that I must provide an ID that has CopyLion on it...But I can't prove that "normal part"(my English first name) is on my ID either, and more people know |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | peops | 7/25/11 1:56 PM | Maybe now that you have explian yourself, google might take your situation into consideration. Keep pressing on! |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | M.I.H. | 7/25/11 3:42 PM | CopyLion, if I may ask a question about that response, please. How did the Google Employee indicate you could provide an ID? I am asking for two reasons. In some countries it is illegal to transmit an official ID of any kind via any sort of el |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | Victor Hooi | 7/25/11 5:55 PM | heya, Ok, seriously? You're trying to list your real name as "CopyLion"? *sigh* I mean, if that's what you've got on your birth certificate or ID card sure. But I suspect that somehow that isn't your real name... Look, I'm Chinese as well. My Chinese |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/25/11 6:42 PM | hi Victor, To make things simple:1.In Google's Community Standard, they ask for "the name your friends, family or co-workers usually call you", that is, NOT the name on IDs, but how people call you.2.I have stated clearly that most Hong Kong people u |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/25/11 6:43 PM | And Victor, if you suspect this is just some kind of excuse, do a people search yourself. |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/25/11 6:46 PM | Typos *faint* |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/25/11 6:49 PM | hi M.I.H., None of such sort of things was provided by them (at least in those emails), they just asked for it. >_> |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/25/11 6:55 PM | Some additional information I know that is weird like some foreign people pick Chinese names like "桌子"(table)...but some Hong Kong people have weird English names, like Sky, Devil ...now you know why you should never tattoo Chinese words as that is w |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | M.I.H. | 7/26/11 12:01 AM | Thank you for that response, CopyLion, and I will have to ask if it's okay I use your post as evidence that somebody fell down on the job in the Google, Inc. legal department. I would also like to know, if it's okay, how they indicated to you to pr |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | Sarah | 7/26/11 2:49 PM | Hi everyone, Are you entering your name in a single script, or in mixed scripts? We only support a single script in the "name" field right now. If you are trying to mix English names with Pinyin, this may be causing your problem. Please use a single |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | Lara Klaber | 7/26/11 3:23 PM | Sarah, I don't believe that's the issue at all. As I understand the chronology, CopyLion signed up for G+ using the name "CopyLion" because, in keeping with Google's suggestion on the sign-up page, it was "the name (his) friends, family, or co-worke |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | Sarah | 7/26/11 5:27 PM | Thanks for the clarification Lara. I will ask about this and pass your feedback along to the team. I also want to correct a typo in my previous message, I meant not to mix Roman characters with Chinese characters. |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | M.I.H. | 7/26/11 6:14 PM | Sarah, sorry to trouble you further on the tangent that has come up in this thread, albeit a very important tangent, but where is the policy statement from Google, Inc. on the manner in which the company is processing requests for, transmission of, a |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | JohnInHK | 7/26/11 7:39 PM | Hi, Sarah, Can you take a look at my gmail account? My google account has been disabled completely since 07/22/2011 because of the Google plus name issue, My name is composed of English first name and Pinyin last name. I am waiting for job offers, so |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | M.I.H. | 7/26/11 10:37 PM | When time permits I find bits and pieces and here's one page I found: =-=-=- Copy Starts -=-=-= http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=name_appeal&rd=1 ID (Optional): Attach a copy of your ID with your name and |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | M.I.H. | 7/26/11 10:42 PM | Yes, I see those stupid spelling and grammar mistakes up there. Double negative -- oh boy! Sorry about that, as Agent 86 used to say. |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/26/11 10:48 PM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/26/11 10:51 PM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/28/11 11:17 AM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | olgsolgs | 7/29/11 9:21 AM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 7/30/11 12:36 PM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | Sarah | 8/1/11 1:35 PM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 8/1/11 8:01 PM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 8/7/11 7:05 AM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | M.I.H. | 8/7/11 11:37 PM | |
| Re: Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for "not using real name" | CopyLion | 8/10/11 6:22 PM |