The law says you have to get a license from the FCC to operate your radio, and getting the license requires sending them your name and addresses. It's that simple.
Then they shouldn't complain too loud that HAM is dying.
Between us privacy minded geeks who don't want our records out in the public, and the queer teens who don't want their old names out in the public as explained by the parent poster, it doesn't leave much of a demography.
Nobody wants their archaic rules. It's that simple.
