Yeah there's no anonymity. As for community policing the FCC itself polices some, and the official observer program has been replaced by the volunteer monitor

Yeah there's no anonymity. As for community policing the FCC itself polices some, and the official observer program has been replaced by the volunteer monitor program which is mostly the same thing. I think you can assume much like on the net, there's at least ten times as many lurkers listening as there are people talking. Back in '28, 1928, the radio amateur's code was written which was a pretty good attempt at letting people talk as much as possible while eliminating ore reducing flame wars over the air. https://www.arrl.org/amateur-code https://www.arrl.org/amateur-code This mentions the informal, sometimes ignored, ban on political speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_amateur_radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_amateur_radio My guess is over the last century the more authoritarian govts banned it, and the free-er countries have lots of people who like to collect contacts and you're not going to get a collectible QSL card in the mail from a guy if over the air you call him a filthy (insert appropriate political slur here) so naturally people tended to not talk about politics, because gotta collect QSL cards or contest points or whatever. On the radio, the quality of your station and antenna and your skills determine how many people you can talk to, so competition, so people are more civil to each other. On the internet, unfortunately everyone "hears" everyone, so there's no gain from not being a jerk, so there's lots of jerks.