Not as ridiculous as claiming a right to a free account using the name of your choice. Nobody expects this from a bank or other commercial supplier. If you care about your pseudonym that much then set up a corporation and trademark it.
In Canada, anyway, there is something called the "right of paternity"
"This right includes the right to claim authorship, the right to remain anonymous, or the right to use a pseudonym or pen name."
I've heard stories that this is as far reaching as getting a bank account under a pseudonym, but I'm not sure about that. It DEFINITELY applies to publishing and copyright, which is what we're talking about. Google, in the case of G+, is a publisher.
This isn't banking, it's chatting with friends. If google wants to make chatting with friends as stringent as banking they are not going to win a very high level of satisfaction or be able to keep up with competition who understands that chatting with friends is a casual endeavor.
Of course not. I'm just saying Google is fucking it up. The fact that facebook also fucks it up is no consolation. All it will take is a smart competitor who knows how to cater to their user base better than google or facebook to steal their userbase out from under them.
Nevertheless, it's a free country, google is free to fuck it up to their heart's content.
