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Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-a-mystery dept.

jfruh writes "Dan Tynan is a tech writer and blogger who discovered, while trying to post links to his writing on his Google+ profile, that his account had been suspended. This despite the fact that he used his real name and didn't violate the terms of service in any other way. Upon appeal his account was reinstated, just as mysteriously as it was shut down, but along the way he discovered a rash of people with suspended Google+ accounts who can't figure out what they did to anger the Google gods."

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  1. Re:Just like the no-fly list? by cpu6502 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the persons suspended by Google has an "unusual name". She didn't say what.... maybe Blossom or Flower or something. In any case she pointed-out the name on G+ is the same as the name on her credit card (which she registered to make paymentws), but that's not good enough for the Microsoft... Apple... ooops, I mean Google fuckup corporation. It deserves to be boycotted.

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  2. Just like MS... by leuk_he · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Same happens at MS.. upload a file that violates their code of conduct policy to MS sky drive, and your windows 7 phone account will be permanently blocked without telling what file caused it or getting any good response.

    Note that that includes files that are not yet shared of, and includes partial nudity

  3. Using Google+ is too dangerous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just don't post anything on my google+ account ever. If my google account was suspended i'd lose email, docs, drive, calendar etc.

    Its too dangerous to use. Why risk it. F**k google+