"KYC" simply for operating your own PC?

Of course. How else are they to know that you posted criticism of the President on the internet?

So far there haven't been any instances of that, from what I'm aware of.

A particular foreign nation, on the other hand...

	▲	lenerdenator 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's the goal, though. The current batch of elite have come up in a place where they have no real incentive to act in any way except that of their choosing. They're also exceedingly thin-skinned. If they think they can get away with ruining people who criticize them online, they'll do so.