Three decades later, what are social media, Buttondown newsletters, and group texts if not “Guerrilla Radio?” At the time, radio was the cheapest way to reach people via an extremely common device that was basically omnipresent, in the home, in the car, in the stores you shopped in, etc. Sounds a lot like a smart phone today. While various forms of electronic communication can be controlled, the government controlled the radio spectrum, a fact that guerrilla radio stations worked around by just not giving a shit about rules.
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