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It's no more theft than allowing you to own the property under your house.
by valuearb 9y ago
It's no more theft than allowing you to own the property under your house.
- ninju 9y agoVery different "the property under your house" is very tangible discrete thing that you pay to own The airwaves (and the signal being transmitted over it) are nebulous flowing item and giving perpetual ownership rights to what can be delivered on those airwaves is a very powerful right..maybe leasing is the right way
- valuearb 9y agoThey can treated effectively as property and there are good reasons to do so. TV and radio frequencies are losing value for media broadcast, but can't be repurposed for better uses such as competing with cable monopolies in data transfer. Ownership rights would make that feasible.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoI agree. Land ownership is also theft from future generations.