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Titanic sinking + early ham radio lulz led to licensing laws - Internet next?
- dctoedt 15y agoArs technica piece cited by OP: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/did-the-titanic-disaster-let-uncle-sam-take-over-the-airwaves.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/did-the-tita...
- lysol 15y agoThat article makes absolutely no sense. It basically says a handful of people messed around on the radio and now a handful of people are messing around on the Internet, so by some extension an unknown piece of legislation not even dreamed up yet is going to be passed to require licenses to use the internet.