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Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy
js7a writes "The New America Foundation has published The Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy (pdf). An excellent 14 page guide that everyone should print a few copies of to have handy in the backpack or car. Learn what would happen if the government regulated speech the same way they regulate airwaves. Learn the truth about microbroadcasting, smart radio, and so-called intererence (all previously covered on Slashdot.) Learn more creative ways to tell Congress to stop giving away public resources to private corporations. Make the most of your rights to use unlicensed wireless, before it's too late."
That article is fucking stupid, I'm suprised there were no comparisons to the NAZI's. Obviously there should be no regulation of radio spectrum, it's not like all hell would break loose and the entire method of communication would become useless or anything.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Don't reform the FCC. Auction off frequencies, with permanent ownership rights, to the public!
In case you haven't noticed, that's close to what the FCC does already. Guess what: if you did that, one large company will own all the frequencies and nobody would be able to do anything.
What conceiveable reason would anyone have for jamming a frequency being used for emergency communication? ;)
He's a terrorist. Make him wear an orange jumpsuit. Oh yeah, and send him to Guantanamo, too, for great justice.
Free as in mason.