SIM-card registration

[Gilrandir]

Then explain to me how you would use a TV set or a mixer for criminal activities or terrorism?

Beside the obvious usage of the devices to kill someone (like dropping a TV set on somebody's head from a top floor or immersing a plugged in mixer into a bath where someone is lying) one can offer a more sophisticated ways to use a TV set for criminal activity and/or terrorism. In fact, it is the way Russia uses television spawning hate shows or airing fake news which eventually made numerous Russians go to Donbas and join "the oppressed Russian speakers revolting against Nazi junta in Kyiv". Radio can be used to this end too. Have you ever heard of Radio Thousand hills?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_...Mille_Collines

And before you say anything, note that your first sentence is already completely out of context since it's not the mobile phone that you register, but the SIM card. The SIM card can be removed from the mobile phone and used with a different one. The mobile phone can also be used without the SIM card.

I agree that it is the SIM card that is registered, I just used phone as a metonymy (part for whole type). But while the phone can be used without a SIM card (not for communication though), the card is useless without the phone (well, you can butter your scones with it or use as a book marker, but it is not its real use, is it?). So one may say you kind of register your phone too when you register the SIM card.

What you do by connecting a name with a SIM card is connect a name with the communication that it is used for. The communication is the object of interest and now I wait for you to explain how you communicate with a toaster.

First of all, some people marry a TV set (http://www.pravdareport.com/news/soc...-2002/25696-0/), so why can't others communicate with a toaster? They sing for hair dryers and say that they sing INTO them - liers!

Second of all (the bolded statement), I don't see why my life (and communication as a part of it) should be a matter of unauthorized and unsolicited interest to anyone. I believe this is called privacy.

edit to add: Landlines are already registered by the way, that's why criminals used to call from phone booths and then switched to unregistered SIM cards. SIM card registration would just bring mobile communication to the same level of registration that stationary lines already have.

Believe me, if some criminal wants to keep his communication secret, he will find a way to do this even if all mobile phones... oops SIM cards are registered. The first way is internet, the second is the one used in Russia - fakely registered SIM cards sold illegaly.