The real name police have struck again. Salman Rushdie's Facebook account was suspended because of the policy of not using pseudonyms. Rushdie doesn't use his first name Ahmed. Google+ does the same thing. Rushdie got his account back by posting a rant on Twitter.
This policy is a problem because in certain countries (the middle east) using your real name could get you arrested or killed. But sites like Facebook & Google+ don't seem to understand this. They are too busy trying to lock people into using their site in connection with other sites, like Spotify requiring a Facebook account for access.
Obviously this is a problem for people not known by their real names. Who is going to go on Stefani Germanotta's Facebook page? Only fans who know that's Lady Gaga (thank you Wikipedia). And again, requiring people in the middle east who were using Facebook to organize their protests might have gotten lots of people killed. But Mark Zuckerberg only cares about how he can increase usage of his site, & how he can make obscene amounts of money.
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