@jeffjarvis The airwaves are public. It's a legitimate function of a democratic government to regulate, i.e., license, their use. In particular, allocation of frequencies and signal coverage areas needs to be enforced by law. A privatized or non-governmental entity could not prevent corporate media from poaching on desirable in-use frequencies, causing chaos for consumers by cranking up the power to drown out competition.

The alleged FCC role in policing content is a right-wing invention