Oh God, please let this come to pass! Amen.
“proposed all but abolishing”
This appears to be a severe trimming back of their mission back to its roots, which were as I recall for amateur radio licensing and technical accountability. Getting back to basics.
Yeah, like net-neutrality.
We could catch up with Asia on cell phone technology.
Tally ho!!!!
MAGA
Shrink the government!
KYPD
Frequency allotments and useage need some planning and enforcement discipline. Coordination with other countries is also a plus. Content control not so much.
We don’t need the EPA as powerful as it is either.
This is just a start.
oh no! If we get rid of the FCC, kids will drink poisoned water and get lung cancer!!!
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When I got my first license there was still a fair amount of home brew equipment. I still have some of that.
Now, the equipment (except some large final amplifiers are factory built equipment and the operators seldom do any of their repairs (which are far less frequent).
I hold a commercial radio license. Back then all stations were required to have at least one employee who was licensed for that. Now it is simply the responsibility of the station owner to insure that the station meets commercial standards. Again the commercial equipment is all type accepted factory equipment.
In the beginning of the FCC it was at the point where “spark” transmission was going away because of interference issues. I actually saw a spark transmitter that a very old amateur operator owned. Rotary type.
Now “sciences” like atmospheric science and AGW nonsense have morphed into political scams. Trump is very smart to put that crap out of it's misery.
The allocation of RF spectrum is an international issue. I don't expect that to go away. The policing issues that are political, not technical, can certainly be handled outside the current FCC’s functions.
Totally rethinking the entire Federal Department structure is the ideal way to eliminate the internal subversion of the nation. Close the Departments and reorganize them (much smaller), that is the way to get around firing a lot of individual people. Let them find new jobs like everyone else.
Let’s start the gloating. Maybe what we need is to start a sidebar list called the Winning List of all the things that are undone or redone back to normal so we can remember them all. Running list by date and accomplishment.
NSA Flynn - Understands the threat of Islam
Secretary DeVos - Cut Common Core and return education back to local control with private competition.
CIA Director Pompeo - Good things just start to happen and nobody from the government says anything about it.
Atty Gen Sessions - The rule of law becomes cool again.
UN Amb Haley - We’ll just have to wait and see. on this one.
They are so dumb, Deomcrats cant even win an election. And they want to control the nation's telecommunications?
Pay no mind Donald....it's only scroungy loser Democrats trying to keep their do-nothing cushy jobs.
More interesting is the thousands of jobs that will be needed for the people working for all these agencies that are let go.
They never had a real job in their lives and would get fired if their work was based on positive performance and making a profit.
How about abolishing the IRS? Didn’t he say he wanted to put H&R Block out of business?
Shrinkage will be a synonym for Trumpage!
Uh, no. The FCC needs to be reigned in regarding its Obama-era overstepping with “net neutrality” and its attempt to open up cable boxes, but we need the FCC for its core duty of monitoring and regulating use of the public airwaves.