A) No doubt; I'm just a pundit. All we can do is guess based on past rulings, like the one where they upheld prevention of material support for terrorists, expe

A) No doubt; I'm just a pundit. All we can do is guess based on past rulings, like the one where they upheld prevention of material support for terrorists, expert advice, or assistance (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/politics/22scotus.html?pagewanted=print https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/us/politics/22scotus.html...). Of course, they also overturned an instance where police tracking-bugged a suspect's vehicle without their consent. I assume "filing paperwork disclosing who you're doing business with" leans closer to preventing the former than doing the latter, but reasonable folks can disagree. B) You can't fight Google with that attitude, no. ;) ... but to be less flip: You're not fighting Google. Google isn't using its PAC to advocate for KYC law. So I'm not sure what you're arguing for here. If you think Google should change their behavior, the way to act on that opinion would be to... Organize Google users to put pressure on the company. So, power's back in our court again. > I wonder if wone day we'll look back at "cloud" and think, "what the actual fudge? How?" Oh, that I can help with. Maintaining one's own prem for anything that gets to be maintain-one's-own-prem-size is much worse. I've carried a pager for a cloud service, but I've never piled into the car at 2AM to drive half a state over to unlock my rented cage in a shared space with a physical link to a heavy-traffic backbone so I could power-cycle a machine. Nor have I put out a physical fire in a machine room, had a power supply blow up in my face, or driven up and down and up and down dirt roads to find the place where my fiber link is down because someone thought it'd be funny to take a shotgun to a junction box. A lot of folks who ask "why Cloud" have nearly zero experience with what came before. (TBF, for small businesses you can maybe handle your load with a few servers under a desk. Many people in this topic have explained how that goes though, and customers expect five-nines uptime these days.)