Speed limits are set by the state on highways and the cities on streets.
Although I travel on interstate highways, I have never been pulled over for speeding by a federal bureaucrat.
You never addressed my point. Should some 14 year old budding transmitter engineer be fined $10,000 and face up to a year in prison for broadcasting on a one watt transmitter on an empty fm frequency to his 20 block neighborhood?
If he does it on the spectrum designated for commercial broadcasters, you betcha. Call me a statist. I call you a demagogue if you are saying a 14-year-old would see a multi-thousand dollar fine and/or jail time for that. This story, BTW, is not about a 14-year-old kid, this is a radio station with all the trappings of a licensed broadcaster. I don't care what the power of the station is, they should have the carp fined out of them.
My point about the freeway is you seem to be advocating no rules at all for the broadcasting road. Because radio waves travel distances long enough to be interstate, it's one of the few proper applications of the (badly abused) Interstate Commerce clause of the US Constitution.
That is an excellent point and should be the focus of the discussion. Which agencies, departments, etc. of the federal government need enforcement, police, prosecution, and/or military weapons level assault forces? (The prior question, of course, is which shouldn't even exist. The department of education for one. They are a waste of perfectly good oxygen.)
Should the FCC exist? (not as a distinct entity, and not with enforcement, police, prosecution, and military weapons level assault forces.) Since we say its about commerce, then it should be a map office within the commerce department that draws venn diagrams of airwave overlaps and frequencies.
They report to some commerce higher who gets to decide whether 2 kids and rock music on a micro-power pirate station are more important than a freight war between American and Mexican truckers on America's highways. Then he'll focus his attention accordingly.