[Kye]

>> "In other words, Americans may find this midly intrusive from a privacy perspective, but in Europe it's common to know who are you dealing with."

It's not intrusive, it's dangerous. I know it's popular to say the US is different where those differences don't account for why things aren't done, but this is one of the exceptions. We don't really have much in the way of protections, so it only takes a few pieces of information to find everything out about someone. Address is one of those. That's useful for creeps, snoops, identity thieves, stalkers, and other unscrupulous characters.

Also, SWATting. I really don't want someone to be able to easily find my address to send a murder squad to because I said/did something they don't like. We also have more guns than people, so someone with sufficient disconnect from reason might skip calling the police and take matters into their own hands.

[sam_lowry_]

This is where I find myself agreeing with smarx007.

I ran a community website with hundreds of active and tens of thousands of irregular visitors for 20 years. I received regular death threats and all kinds of insults, my address could be found online with some effort, but none ever showed at my doorstep over these years to claim what is due.

The only mild dorrstep clash I had was with a disgruntled husband of the babysitter we fired on the spot. A totally offline affair.

Dunno about USA, but a properly functioning society does not need PO boxes nor fences.

And the only peeple working hard to take down the UBO register are Putin's cronies (this is no exageration, google for Patrick Hansen)