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What you're seeing here is a policy that came into full flower in World War II but has been a part of radio since the beginning. It's the idea that all paths m
by olefoo 11y ago
What you're seeing here is a policy that came into full flower in World War II but has been a part of radio since the beginning. It's the idea that all paths must be pursued to maintain absolute mastery of signals intelligence on communications channels used by the public. It's as full an example of imperial military doctrine as you will encounter anywhere. This unfortunately puts the military interests of the United States directly against the civil rights of United States Citizens.
Oh yeah, also. It's pretty settled case law that your first amendment rights do not apply to broadcast radio signals.
- sliverstorm 11y agoIs that the military, or is that just the fact that we only have so much radio spectrum (it's basically a public good) and everybody wants a piece of it? Have you taken a look at the U.S. Frequency Allocations map recently?
- olefoo 11y agoI have heard that the current system woefully misallocates bandwidth and that Full Frequency Spread Spectrum transmission would help with that. Of course the current system of government granted monopolies on spectrum allocation would have to go away. And that is a political event of low probability of occurence. At least this week.