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These are not “journalists”

They’re about as close to journalists as COD players are Navy SEALs

The logic here is the same as the logic behind UBO registries. The proponents of such argue that there is a significant benefit to the public from knowing who owns what.

"persons wishing to remain anonymous" is disingenuous.

Is it lawful to run a multi-million-dollar enterprise, anonymously? Is it acceptable ?

It’s lawful.

Should it be acceptable? Yeah, I’ve had BigCos send PIs to my home to harass me because they didn’t like what my really quite small multi-million-dollar enterprise was doing.

Harassment sucks, whoever does it.

But I find it hard to believe that anonymous multi-million-dollar enterprises would be a net positive to society.