[drewg123]

A company owned by an instagram influencer, youtube celebrity, only fans star, etc to sell their merch could easily lead to doxing the influencer. People in those industries take advantage of loopholes to hide LLC ownership specifically to avoid getting SWATted, having creeps hide outside their house and SA them, etc.

[altruios]

Knowing who owns the LLC is ever so slightly different than also knowing their home address. Knowing THAT someone owns company X doesn't mean you know their location as well.

That's all I care about or want: To know 'who', not where 'who' is.

[SJC_Hacker]

Yeah, once you have someone's name, as well as some other identifying info such as approximate location and age finding out where the live is rather trivial.

[drewg123]

Heck, some states list the address of the owner.

One of her friends registered an llc with herself as the owner, and one of her followers looked her llc up and found her real name and address via the state llc registration web site. He then hid in the bushes outside her house and "surprised" her. Leading her to close the llc and move.

[cess11]

Right, and then you can check out where they live and whether they're nice people.

Seems good to me.

[matsemann]

How could this lead to doxxing?

[Gormo]

Lead to? It is doxxing.

[matsemann]

How? If they're selling a service, knowing who you're buying from isn't doxxing.

[Gormo]

Who you do business with is up to you, and you are totally free to avoid firms that won't answer your questions about their ownership structure.

That's got nothing to do with attempts to force business owners to submit sensitive personal information into a central database, which you wouldn't even have access to unless you had corrupt influence over the organization maintaining it.