I hate to say it, but from an engineering/UX perspective, a secure and reliable federal identity API would make a lot of sense. As long as they're going to hav

I hate to say it, but from an engineering/UX perspective, a secure and reliable federal identity API would make a lot of sense. As long as they're going to have a blacklist like this, they may as well do it correctly. Names do not individually identify people and it's ridiculous that security-sensitive processes still use names as primary identifiers in this era. You're also not actually losing any anonymity - an online order is already linked to a physical address and a credit card (which is in turn linked to a real identity). A central ID API only gets Big Brother-ish if its use is mandated for previously pseudonymous interactions (say, HN or Reddit comments).