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