China orders all websites, blogs to register with government or face shutdown
Our own "
National Telecommunications and Information Administration has decided that Americans using the .us domain have no right to privacy, and that if you have a .us domain that you have registered as private, you will have to reveal your contact information, and if you are planning on a .us domain, you will not be able to register as private. There was no hearing, no due process, no survey of .us owners, come January of 2006, you better reveal your information, or you domain goes bye-bye. More information at
AmericansDeservePrivacy.com.
I don't expect this to stop with the .us domain. I expect other agencies and/or Congress to push for such measures across all domains/websites hosted in the US. Many of them do not like us being able to setup private websites (I'm sure they'll use the threat of terrorism as an excuse).
Unfortunately you are probably correct. At some point long in the future you'll probably have to log onto the network with something similar to your SSN, so you can be tracked and they verify you pay for content you access. We're talking a long ways off, but due to terrorism, hackism, and theivery, the government will probably at some point require it. By then, many will actually want it, else it wouldn't go through.