Google’s Double-Plus Real Names  So after spending a couple of
weeks talking about why Google+ is so great, we are now in the
second week of speaking about Google’s strange policy regarding
user names for this new social network. And it really is
very strange, perhaps even more so than it is controversial,
oppressive, or socially obliging. For whatever you might have
heard and whatever Google’s original intention might have been,
the way the service and its rules work right now does not boil
down to requiring real names. That would have made for a
pertinent but simple story; it is a story well worth telling and
debating, but it’s not this story.  If Google actually required
everyone to use their real names, the case would be somewhat
straightforward. It would be understandable why they’d want that
to happen, as it would vastly increase marketing potential and
cut down on trolls and other kinds of abuse. It would also be
easy to see why many people would disagree with that policy, as
it might make the service