Comments on: The revolution will be televised… and then fined for inappropriate content. http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/11/15/the-revolution-will-be-televised-and-then-fined-for-inappropriate-content/ rum, bloggery & the lash Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: the ungoverned http://blog.archenemy.org/2004/11/15/the-revolution-will-be-televised-and-then-fined-for-inappropriate-content/comment-page-1/#comment-58 the ungoverned Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:51:59 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=181#comment-58 The FCC exists in order to protect the corporate interests who control radio broadcasting. It was created out of basically noble impulses - chatter on the airwaves by amateur radio operators interfered with communication during the Titanic rescue operations, so the US Govt stepped in and took the radio spectrum away from the people and regulated its use. Of course, most of the interference was due to the crude nature of the technology (spark gap transmitters), and not to any issues that Government control could directly address, so it addressed an unrelated, more basic issue: access to the airwaves in any form became regulated. As is almost inevitable, corporations started gaming the system. The FCC exists in order to protect the corporate interests who control radio broadcasting.
It was created out of basically noble impulses - chatter on the airwaves by amateur radio operators interfered with communication during the Titanic rescue operations, so the US Govt stepped in and took the radio spectrum away from the people and regulated its use. Of course, most of the interference was due to the crude nature of the technology (spark gap transmitters), and not to any issues that Government control could directly address, so it addressed an unrelated, more basic issue: access to the airwaves in any form became regulated.

As is almost inevitable, corporations started gaming the system.

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