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There is no real Libertarian solution for managing radio. I have played out the technical challenges over and over and there is no angle that works. You need a centralized authority for large regions to organize allocation of bandwidth and transmission strength.
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@Moon you're just racist against border blasters
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@0 @pernia @meowski basically even a walky-talky strength radio can fuck everyone's shit up in an entire neighborhood. no way to self-police that
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@pernia @meowski @Moon
He's not wrong so long as you're talking about interoperability. The "Libertarian" solution to RF looks like tall fences and limited internal use otherwise.
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@0 @pernia FCC regulates radio device manufacture, citizen band is also set aside nationwide
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@Moon @pernia Also counterpoint, CB is still functional.
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You can literally wall off RF since it's LOS. Your property, if you will.
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@0 @pernia that's compelling but it doesn't work for the totality of the spectrum. if every radio was very low power it would make everything easier.
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@Moon @pernia
The community certainly surpassed the FCC, took the regulating body decades and finally greenlight FM; the cart doesn't pull the horse. What regulates CB is the utility of CB. See also British historical CB, importing devices that were explicitly illegal because of their function, and doing so until the law was revised.
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@toiletpaper radio waves are even worse because overlapping frequencies cause interference
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I wonder about this myself from time to time. Like take tobacco smoking as an example. Who owns the air we breath? Is it considered "aggression" to pollute the air with substances which are noxious to the other people effected? In principal it's the same with air-waves. Who exactly has allodial title to the air[waves]? Is there (or should there be) such a thing as adverse possession (eg. squatters rights) in this context?
Thing is, whether [American right-wing] libertarians are willing to acknowledge it or not, there is such a thing as public property (aka: common pool resources). Air and water are the most obvious examples. This is where [American right-wing] libertarianism's capitalist myopia puts a wrench in the gears, and where folks like Elinor Ostrom make vastly more practical/realistic sense.
Fyi: https://wtf.tw/ref/ostrom_1990.pdf
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@Moon @pernia @meowski @0 i don't think libertarian means no government. they still have one. it's just limited in scope to things that people can't actually deal with (like contract disputes.)
but then this is probably what heinlein and paul would tell you. idunno what passes for a libertarian anymore. but the idea that libertarian = no government is some modern brainworm.
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