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posted by martyb on Saturday December 30 2017, @08:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-had-a-flashlight-(you'll-need-to-RTFA) dept.

FCC tries to make Miami pirate radio station walk the plank

"Pirate radio" in 2017 takes many forms, but here's one: a north Miami couple hosting a transmitter in their backyard shed while a DJ's signal is piped in over the Internet and promoted on Facebook—even after multiple warnings from the government and a gear seizure by the US Marshals. Oh—did I mention the $144,344 fine? Not that anyone's likely to pay it.

Welcome to 90.1 MHz, "Radio Touche Douce," a Haitian music station appearing to be so obviously illegal that it even has the ability to unite the current fractious set of FCC commissioners. It's not even a secret; as the Miami Herald notes, the station is "the pulse of the Haitian music industry in Miami, organizing some of the most popular big-ticket parties while promoting bands and guiding konpa music fans to the next hit." But that doesn't mean it has been easy to shut down.

Here, in statements pulled right from FCC documents, is the story of how Radio Touche Douce has operated for years right under the nose of government investigators—and how the FCC has now upped the ante.

Touche Douce Radio.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @01:42AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @01:42AM (#616041)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7n2s34/iama_survivor_of_stalins_communist_dictatorship/?sort=top [reddit.com]

    https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/1843430851 [amazon.com]

    Stalin ruled by power and murdered millions for little more than the serious heinous crimes like 'mailing your family in another country'. Marxism begat communism, socialism, and nazism. All three have murdered millions all in the name of negative thinking. They are as much as about science as what comes out my ass is edible. Do not let them fool you into dreams of being someone important in their society. They have no room for you. You will be taken care of. You have too much free thought. The only thought that is deemed good is for the state. Once you realize you have been fooled it would be too late. At that point they will take care of you. But in their way that benefits them. Not you.

    If you want to pretend they were not practicing those things, then go right ahead. I however will take them at their word (in their own words) at what they were practicing.

    The only perfect societies do not exist (they never will). We have a blend in many countries because most people are greedy and douchbags. Once you realize that you can understand why these grand systems fail and why they will never work. This is equally true for Capitalism. Remember Capitalism is a Marxist invented term to deride the system he did not like. To overthrow something most people use you need to put a negative spin upon it first. It works for those who have nothing. As they are as I said greedy and douchebags (remember this holds true for everyone including the 1% and 99%). Marxist systems depend on everyone being perfectly nice and reasonable and benevolent. None of that is not true. We can wish it was but it can not be. We are greedy douchebags. Capitalism uses greed and douchbagary as a strength for its system. As whoever is the best at doing that 'wins'. Everyone is motivated to do it because they are already natural at it. All of the systems devolve into feudalism or dictatorships. Capitalism does it slower than the marxist classes. We have been doing that by balancing it with socialism like ideals. The problem is socialism is at direct contrast to Capitalism. As to live in the Capitalistic system you need capital and money. Marxism runs out of money quickly. For there is no incentive to fix what is wrong as, 'someone else will do it'. Remember we are lazy greedy douchbags.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @04:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @04:16AM (#616063)

    Either you are brainwashed or do not know much about Nazism.

    Nazis despised Jews for their lack of creativity as can be seen in the documentary The Eternal Jew.

    Nazis celebrated their own achievements in science, technology, arts, literature and so on. Nazism is a beautiful system designed for the greatest benefit for the individual and the state. National Socialism has a future, others have none.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @07:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 31 2017, @07:54PM (#616189)

      Nazism is a beautiful system designed for the greatest benefit for the individual and the state.

      It's zero-sum. Tipping the balance towards the state directly detracts from the autonomy and freedom of the individual. "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" is a simple way to put it, and any limits beyond that are a direct infringement on the exclusive self-ownership of human beings.

      If you're not just being an edgytroll, I'd like to read your reasoning as to how there can be a state with logically-limited power over individuals when participation in the state isn't completely voluntary and can be disassociated from at any time and for any reason. If there ISN'T a way to limit the power of a given state, then the result is yet another authoritarian hellscape like the rest that litter history.