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Since the Chief Architect is so supportive of privacy rights - I'd like to participate in G+ using a pseudonym. How about it Google??

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Something like this? https://plus.google.com/+BradleyHorowitz/posts/SM5RjubbMmV

No, that says you can't use a pseudonym without proving to Google that it is one a lot of people know you by.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/victory-google-surrend...

http://mashable.com/2011/10/19/google-to-support-pseudonyms&...;

Nothing in the names policy prohibits pseudonyms. If your given name is "Jason Ramirez", you're welcome to have a separate Google+ account with the name "Nancy Young".

You only have to prove people know you by a name if you want to go by "#RS", "Albert Einstein", or "GreenLife Rx"; all three of those are likely name violations for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with knowing who you are.

He is responding in the thread, so you could actually ask there, and maybe hear an answer, as opposed to merely being snarky here.

Unless, of course, you are someone who actually needs a pseudonym even to ask such a question, in which case such a forum is not for you...

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