According to the linked complaint by MG, he is not whining about the policy so much as about the deletion without warning:
> My problem isn’t so much with the fact that I couldn’t have a profile picture of myself giving everyone the finger — which I can and do on Twitter and elsewhere — it’s that no one bothered to tell me or warn me before they just went into my account and deleted the picture.
he does also take issue with the policy itself, but as an aside not as his main point:
> Bigger picture: this seems like a ridiculous thing for Google to be policing. [...]
> This also seems like a slippery slope. In certain cultures, various hand gestures mean different things. Is Google also going to delete my profile picture if I have my fingers up to my chin, for example?
It betrays his technical competence to say they went "into my account," doesn't it? I don't think it's helpful or appropriate for him to use property terms for a topic like this.
> My problem isn’t so much with the fact that I couldn’t have a profile picture of myself giving everyone the finger — which I can and do on Twitter and elsewhere — it’s that no one bothered to tell me or warn me before they just went into my account and deleted the picture.
he does also take issue with the policy itself, but as an aside not as his main point:
> Bigger picture: this seems like a ridiculous thing for Google to be policing. [...]
> This also seems like a slippery slope. In certain cultures, various hand gestures mean different things. Is Google also going to delete my profile picture if I have my fingers up to my chin, for example?