The major part of it is about controlling what happens on the bands. Which to a degree is a useful function, because the FCC is useful as a sort of arbiter betw

The major part of it is about controlling what happens on the bands. Which to a degree is a useful function, because the FCC is useful as a sort of arbiter between various users of those bands. Commercial, public sector, amateur, etc. However, the recent explosion in popularity of "transmit on whatever band you please, right out of the box" radios has created a lot of opportunities for idiots to cause limited havoc on one end, and for the FCC to apparently extrapolate that to "omg unlimited havoc" on the other. We'll see how it goes, but there is clearly a lot of B&W (i.e. uneducated or just non-analytical) thinking on the matter currently.