Let’s look to what the govt wants to do to w/ the internet. The same as they’ve done w/ the FCC (IE: *CONTROL*). Luckily, that genie isn’t going back and, I’d bet $$ to do-nuts, they’d have a damn quick ‘Revolution III’ should they decide to attempt it; even if for the good of the Public, of course.
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Well, airways are a finite resource. If left totally unregulated, we may not be very happy with the results...mostly likely resulting in totally unusable frequencies, due to everyone stepping on everyone else.
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‘Finite’ is only a limit of existing technology/science. Let’s take radio for example: What required a broad spectrum at the dawn of radio can now be broadcast to the nearest .1 on the FM dial. What’s that today...88.x to 107.x?? That’s quite a bit of broadcasting going on.
Airways are also limited by geography and distance. Energy needed to drive signals further and further out; you’re ‘stepping on toes’ would most likely occur at the *fringes*/overlaps of each range, not where a signal is stronger\est.
That ‘quite a bit’, from above, is multiplied over NUMEROUS geographical locations, utilizing the SAME frequencies for its region...it’s not ‘D.C. can ONLY have 101.1, and nobody else can use it’. And biz would be stupid to create the conflicts by setting up the SAME freq. so close together; whereas alternating frequencies would cause no issue (City A @ 100FM, City B @ 105FM, City C @ 100FM)
Just as the Free Market today works w/ WiFi in your ‘hood. EVERYONE doesn’t use the same channel (freq). And those on the other end of the block aren’t interfering w/ your end (distance/geography). That didn’t require FCC or govt intervention to figure out.
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But the FCC has to TOTALLY get out of the policing business regarding speech. They should only be involved in divvying up the airways and that is it.
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R-I-G-H-T. Because no govt agency/dept/etc. has grown beyond its charter/scope and all have stayed within the budget confines from their inception. (SEE: Fed Reserve, EPA, NSA).
Govt lives to grow GOVT, not Freedom, not choice and NEVER freely\cheaply.
The ONLY way to get the FCC out of policing is to abolish it absolutely.
“That didn’t require FCC or govt intervention to figure out.”
How sure are you that there aren’t FCC limits on how much power my wireless transmitters can put out? My computer certainly has FCC written on it.
And this article seems to say it too:
http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php/FCC_Regulations_on_WiFi.
If no limit, I could put a linear on my laptop and use my home network at work (miles away). Of course so could anyone else, which is why it needs to be regulated.