Setting aside whether OP is right about this specific legislation, generally anti-revolution legislation is about making it harder for people to prepare and organize before they start. They obviously don’t do squat once a Revolution has broken out, but that’s not the point.

As I mentioned elsewhere one of the big parts of this is a ban on encryption and heavy regulations on spread spectrum. Obviously a sufficiently capable person could implement these trivially but it hampers mass adoption. If nobody has encryption and jam resistance before a revolution, for sure nobody is going to after one starts as the types of portable radios we're talking about are not particularly modifiable.

Yeah...if it's about suppressing revolutions then it's a bit weird the FCC is letting a lot of people run around breaking the encryption and bitrate regulations.

Injecting estrogen into a pregnant woman during childbirth won't stop the child from coming out, but doing so prior to implantation can disrupt the process and prevent a pregnancy and therefore motherhood.

This analogy demonstrates that you understand the situation well… but it's a really tortured analogy. Can you think of a better one?