YouTube wants you to tell the world who you really are, but only with your permission.
That’s effectively the stance being taken by the massively popular online video website, owned by Google, which in late June began prompting YouTube account holders who also have separate Google Plus accounts to connect the two and have their “full names” appear on the their YouTube accounts, as opposed to pseudonyms or other clever usernames.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=96819