Imagine you are a state and you have this company that sits on an incredible treasure trove of personal information, something that was previously available onl

Imagine you are a state and you have this company that sits on an incredible treasure trove of personal information, something that was previously available only to your own specialized agencies. Not trying to get a hold of this information would mean not doing the best job protecting state security. So it is highly likely that Google is already very tightly fused with the state. And that would trivially explain the push for real names - Google doesn't really need it to advance their business, but it'd be incredibly useful for the state.