The EU becomes a hostile place to civil rights more and more. This isn't about fighting criminals, that would be ineffective. It is about information control. Cooperation with the EU on anything digital should be minimized.
You have to remember that the WHOIS services for EU TLDs are not public due to GDPR as least all of the ones I have tried to resolve are all unavailable now.
This is still terrible since it just raises the cost of privacy to the cost of registering a shell LLC or the EU equivalent or having a law office register in your place, etc.
Many EU cTLDs already do register using a real name but they keep the info somewhat private.
Sigh, after GDPR (IMHO rightfully) doing its best to kill public-by-default WHOIS, now double-down in the reverse. Seriously wonder if any lobby pushed for that or self-thought-out stupidity.
This is a terrible proposal. People deserve the right to anonymous communication. WHOIS Privacy services are a key part of granting that anonymity. This is especially bad for activists, whistleblowers, and the politically persecuted. But it is also just bad in an 'everyday' sense, for people who simply do not want their personal information out there visible for the whole world to see.
As a European I would highly like to switch to the Anglo internet full of barbarism in that case. I don't think something like the internet could have been developed in Europe and legislation like this hints to the reasons.
