A KYC scheme for using a cloud hosting service (as the U.S. Department of Commerce is proposing) is ridiculous.

1) In many cases, these "cloud hosting servers" will already take a credit card, or some other thing which can be tracked down to someone.

2) This creates another spot where someone might be breached.

3) It is bad for privacy (and by extension, probably free expression).

4) Even trials are affected, which is actually pretty bizarre, which makes it hard to evaluate a product without giving them your personal info.

5) In many cases, they probably already take someone's personal info. #FreeSpeech