isiredsami - yeah except there is a glaringly huge difference between the state and SR.You are here 100% voluntarily. nobody is standing behind your computer chair with a gun at the back of your head, saying that you have to be on SR and SR forums or you're dead. SR is not your property - the owner of SR can change it however he wishes and you either stay or go, his changes will reflect his desire to keep people around doing transactions because that is the only way he makes money from SR.The government uses these excuses to do exactly what you say, except there is no voluntary aspect to it. You either do, or you get kidnapped and locked away, or hospitalized or murdered, or your property is stolen from you. This isnt' legislation on SR this is somebody doing whatever he wants with his property, no force involved. I had a seller account before and he's not going back and retroactively charging people to use it now, it's a "from here on out" situation - which is completely fair. He could insist that every prospective seller send in a picture proving he has blue hair or eats dog food from a can if he wants.