In what country do you need to register and give up personal identifying information in order to read a newspaper or listen to the radio? If the idea to centra

In what country do you need to register and give up personal identifying information in order to read a newspaper or listen to the radio? If the idea to centrally register every reader before they were allowed to read news articles had been raised in the 50s or 60s, it would have rightly been regarded as undemocratic. In our age it passes without discussion, and any suggestion it may be problematic is regarded as useless nostalgia.