Google + and YouTube – People Yearning to be Free!
People like personal choice and freedom. Every time a big company, or government, any large entity, pushes something on folks… they get up in arms and take on ‘da man!’
Well, that is certainly happening with Google’s forced integration of YouTube and Goggle +!
Forced Google Plus integration on YouTube backfires, petition hits 112,000
ZDNet – “Google’s war on anonymity during its involvement in NSA controversy has imploded as its move to force YouTube commenters to use Google Plus – and its unwanted ‘real name’ policy – has backfired.
On November 6, Google changed its YouTube property to only allow comments from Google Plus accounts, thus de-anonymizing commenters, as the principal element of its site-wide comments overhaul.
Google’s move to force Plus onto YouTube has outraged the YouTube community – and beyond.
YouTube user fury is fueling this anti-Plus petition with over 112,000 signatures, increasing by the minute. (Update November 17, 10:12am PST: over 167,000 signatures.)
Why am I unable to comment? I have been a YouTuber for 3 years and this is the kind of treatment we ‘originals’ [Before any of the G+ crap came in] receive for refusing to show our name publicly?
We want privacy. I do not want my full name on YouTube. I do not care for Google Plus either so stop shoving it in my face. [Nathan S, UK]”