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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. »»»»