11th January 2006, 8:16 PM
Well, it's not too much of an attack on free speech, more of a "work around". Sort of like saying "okay you can say whatever you want... but I want to know WHO YOU ARE". If that's not a violation of freedom of speech, it's at least violating an unlisted right, and the unspoken rights are protected under the 4th ammendment. Namely, right to privacy within reason.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)