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There's no free speech or association here, only questions of who can access government-controlled radio spectrum. This is also incredibly dangerous -- nearly
by tedks 12y ago
There's no free speech or association here, only questions of who can access government-controlled radio spectrum.
This is also incredibly dangerous -- nearly all drug trafficking is orchestrated via cellular networks, and it's not a stretch to imagine that felons might lose the right to use government radio spectrum to communicate in the same way they lose the right to vote in many states.
To put it another way, which seems more of a central right in the democratic system: voting, or controlled frequency access?
It seems very quixotic to make this an issue of free speech, when free speech itself is so highly regulated. Ask the protesters outside the free speech zone if free speech exists beyond state regulation -- the silence is your answer.