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Please.. save the outrage for something that matters, like SOPA or protect IP. There is IMO no "issue" here. I dont see any problem with googles approach. I agree that you can probably find alot more offensive profile pictures and its borderline, but presumably they were reacting to a complaint and made a judgement call.

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The issue that you're pretending not to recognise is quite clear. Google+ doesn't just censor things that they're forced to. They even censor pictures of mild, unthreatening, commonly used, gestures. That is a problem worth talking about.

They are free to do this, and rightly so. But people should be aware that this happens, and is a bad thing, so when a viable alternative is created, that doesn't suffer the same problem, they already know why they should move.

There is no "outrage". Nobody is being unreasonable by discussing this issue. Discussing this issue takes nothing away from the SOPA issue.

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