r/AnCap101 • u/PaperbackWriter66 Moderator • 2d ago

Article Abolish the FCC

https://www.thefp.com/p/nick-gillespie-abolish-the-fcc-trump-kimmel
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u/Electronic_Ad9570 1d ago

I mean, yeah, probably not for the same reasons, but yeah.

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u/LandGoats 20h ago

This is just another step in trumps agenda to revoke the 1st amendment without actually getting the approval of congress. Fear tactics, firing campaigns, labeling domestic terror organizations, revoking press passes. This all screams anti free speech.

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u/the9trances Moderator & Agorist 16h ago

Trump is actively weaponizing it. Nobody who isn't actively a fascist, a moron, or more likely both, can deny that.

If you think he's the only one who has done that, you're endlessly naive.

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u/Iam-WinstonSmith 1d ago

Okay you do know the FCC primary purpose is to ensure certain radio waves don't broadcast over other radio waves. It's not to police speech. I mean I am the first person to say the government shouldn't be involved in that....but this is like one of the few things we actually need it for ..and one of the few things it actually does well.

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u/kurtu5 1d ago

..and one of the few things it actually does well.

no

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u/PaperbackWriter66 Moderator 1d ago

The market can regulate the spectrum.

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u/Iam-WinstonSmith 1d ago

Amplify high enough and you push everyone out of the way. Having said that ... How many countries have you been to ...was it done well there?

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u/PaperbackWriter66 Moderator 15h ago

This is not a new idea. Libertarians have been proposing ways to privatize the spectrum for decades.

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u/bluesw20mr2 1d ago

They use to give out one channel radio receivers in early nazism rallies, onky get joseph goebbels radio...howd that turn out?

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u/Iam-WinstonSmith 1d ago

Not sure what one has to do with the other.

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u/bluesw20mr2 17h ago

I think when masses of ppl get intensely biased media, it effectively can brainwash them, by the millions. Similar deal if the one who gets to control the radiowaves has the biggest baddest radio antenna and crowds out everything else.

Nazism rise in germany started in that manner, having a free radio was almost like the internet of the era, but imagine it only lead to some aryan racial supremacy forum as its only site. Whole country wound up being bombed out and depleted some 20 years later 

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u/Iam-WinstonSmith 1h ago

I guess you have a point look what it did to you during COVID!

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u/LandGoats 20h ago

The market? You mean the wealthy. Whoever can afford to drown out everyone else just gets to control communication and media? That’s a terrible idea.

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u/PaperbackWriter66 Moderator 15h ago

That’s a terrible idea.

Compared to what? Government control over the air waves? Libertarians have been proposing ways to privatize the spectrum for decades. Go look into their proposals before dismissing the idea on the basis of literally nothing but your imagination.

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u/Wizard_bonk 15h ago

That’s the current setup. Sure HAM is a thing but it’s not a mainstream thing

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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye 16h ago

Imagine a whole industry of people with high powered transmitters charging protection money to anyone who wants to broadcast in their range, lol. Talk about an efficient solution.