Electronic Frontier Foundation
The FCC should firmly reject broadcasters' invitation to lock down our publicly owned airwaves. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-must-reject-broadcast-drm
The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves

President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves. The FCC is quietly...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
May 12, 2025 at 9:45pmWeb
Show thread a HOT Rubie May 12, 2025

@eff "How hefty a bribe to the president will they have to pay to make it so, I wonder.

Broadcasters are no longer public trustees but rather holders of licenses for rights to "own" spectrum under the most recent Communications Act revisions, and the government is no longer holding the radio spectrum in trust, but has rather indulged in taking for it's own profit, not the public's.

A win-win for all but the public interest."

Show threadZi7ar21May 14, 2025
I wish there were a commission to regulate my neighbor's lighting to prevent it from spilling onto my property and sky creating light pollution, what's the difference between that and the poorly penetrating millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation the FCC regulates? A couple terahertz? Pfft...