That's not what the link says. The link says that foreign identity is verified for people accessing SaaS infrastructure. In other words, if you want to use Amazon to host your new reddit alternative, your identity will be verified to ensure you're not a foreigner. This says nothing about the users of your service.
Internet companies are censoring like hell, so self-run sites increasingly are the only way to speak freely. Even though freedom of speech is formally legal, in practice saying the wrong things leads to you getting harassed by the authorities, put on watchlists, doxed, and leads to consequences which any reasonable person would want to avoid. Stuff like the 2ndA doesn't matter.
Besides, any reasonable person would want to be in full control of his own infrastructure regarding communication to escape surveillance. If those machines have to stay in some hosting center, they're outside of the physical control of their owner, and will be targeted if they can be linked to their owner, and the authorities need to do that to spy on him.
So this act is the end of the free internet in the US, because the state's authorities are the enemy and full anonymity is the only safeguard dissidents will ever have. With this act dissidents can't use public sites, because they'll be censored, and can't create their own infrastructure, because they'll be in peril the second their identity gets leaked, or the police decides to fuck them over. Which they will do. Being put in prison and being oppressed by the state is what makes someone into a real dissident.
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