If you start a new product, label it 'Beta' and people use it, like it, but have a problem with it: Do you answer 'So - go away and build it yourself'?
I agree that there is a lot of whining involved. 'The right to use G+', 'Think of the children/lesbian/gays/victims of numerous crims' arguments that cannot really be countered in a productive way. But if you actually look into the debate you find lots of people that are merely asking Google to reconsider. These are people that started using the product in its early beginnings, care about it (otherwise it would be a non-issue and we could just host a blog as you suggest or go elsewhere with a shrug), but won't - for a multitude of reasons - support this 'community guidelines'.
Facebook? Really? Who cares about Facebook. Why is Facebook coming up in this discussion all the time? If G+ is ~like Facebook~, why do we need it in he first place? It's a competing product in the same market, granted. But arguing 'Facebook does X, why do you care that G+ does the same' is really weird in my world.
I agree that there is a lot of whining involved. 'The right to use G+', 'Think of the children/lesbian/gays/victims of numerous crims' arguments that cannot really be countered in a productive way. But if you actually look into the debate you find lots of people that are merely asking Google to reconsider. These are people that started using the product in its early beginnings, care about it (otherwise it would be a non-issue and we could just host a blog as you suggest or go elsewhere with a shrug), but won't - for a multitude of reasons - support this 'community guidelines'.
Facebook? Really? Who cares about Facebook. Why is Facebook coming up in this discussion all the time? If G+ is ~like Facebook~, why do we need it in he first place? It's a competing product in the same market, granted. But arguing 'Facebook does X, why do you care that G+ does the same' is really weird in my world.