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Radio is public. These people need to be named and shamed. An automated system for recording and archiving these public transmissions with their call signs att
by riffic 6y ago
Radio is public. These people need to be named and shamed.
An automated system for recording and archiving these public transmissions with their call signs attached as tags would probably be a good first step.
- bityard 6y agoThat's an understandable reaction but it's the wrong one. People like that say the things they say for the attention it attracts to them. They are not ashamed of their dumbass bigoted opinions otherwise they wouldn't be transmitting halfway around the world in the clear. If you engage them in any way, even to try to shame them, you have already given them what they want. They are the trolls of amateur radio. The right thing to do is what most of us hams do: spin the dial and find someone more pleasant to talk to.
- riffic 6y agoThere was a good thread on reddit about this recently and I firmly agree with this comment about how useless "spin the dial" is: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/iatqth/a_lot_of_blatant_racism_on_my_local_repeater_is/g1rhoaw/ https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/iatqth/a_lot_... social ostracization and penalty has its time and place, and this is one of those occasions. Same reason cars have number plates.
- jimhefferon 6y agoI hear you, but the flip side is that this is a hobby. I did not get in it to get mad.
- riffic 6y agonot mad at all. My take is that radio is not an ephemeral medium. These transmissions can be slurped down by an SDR, recorded, stored, analyzed, tagged, fingerprinted, indexed, et cetera. By keying up you are effectively making a statement of public record. At the moment there isn't a financial incentive to perform this at any reasonable scale, but this doesn't mean that it can't be done at all.
- monksy 6y agoThis is a very extreme and authoritarian response to a very vocal minority. Who decides what isn't "compliant" with the rules you want to shame them for?
- riffic 6y agoJust record it all and make it indexed/searchable. Not discriminating here, just want to make it easier to correlate statements to the public record with public call signs.
- monksy 6y agoGot it, you want to make it all but the punishment towards suppression of speech. Mention about the independent country of Taiwan or the autonomy of Hong Kong on radio.. well you've enabled the punishment of said behavior on a very real level. (In this case that would be invoking the national security letters recently introduced) Is this really worth it for a few people with terrible opinions? My stance: Let people have stupid opinions, let them blow off steam, recognize that you don't agree with them, don't be their opinions.
- riffic 6y agoAgain, you seem to think that radio is ephemeral. It's not, and there is no expectation of privacy or anonymity when you key up. Perhaps you misunderstand what amateur radio is about.
- pcdoodle 6y agoFor real...
- fat_turdsicle 6y agoIt kills you that you cannot control views different than yours doesn't it? It's called freedom of speech and applies to ALL views. Even pro-censorship conformist ones like yours. Even though I disagree with your post I don't down vote it or attempt to censor it. It his RIGHT to spout off nonsense just like it is yours.
- redwall_hp 6y agoYou already have to drop your call letters every few minutes while you're on-air, by FCC regulation. HAM radio transmissions are also subject to FCC restrictions on "obscene or indecent" language. If it crosses the line where it wouldn't be allowed on over-the-air TV, it's not allowed on HAM radio spectrum. You can report it, and with evidence it can lead to nasty fines and/or revocation of license.