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> Somehow there were ways to get this done before websites existed

Ah yeah, because fake subpoenas didn’t work before the internet existed?

> I do not believe that those channels for government no longer exist. If they choose to make themselves impossible to locate offline, this is on them.

Who says they ever existed? Back in the pre-internet days the situation was just worse.

Even the federal government can’t manage this, just look at misissuances of .gov domain names.