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A comment on FCC Warns Portland Church to Shut Down Pirate FM Operating Under Its Steeple. Parent comment

Re:FCC Warns Portland Church to Shut Down Pirate FM Operatin... by Spooky23 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @04:30PM (#35497311)
No. The airwaves belong to the public, as licensed by the FCC. You don’t have any squatters rights to the airwaves.
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Re:FCC Warns Portland Church to Shut Down Pirate FM Operatin... by s1artibartfast on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:24PM (#35497782)
I'm not talking about durable squatters right. More akin swimming in the ocean or hiking a cross a field
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Re:FCC Warns Portland Church to Shut Down Pirate FM Operatin... by Spooky23 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @08:50PM (#35499131)
The FCC hasn’t historically supported that. One of the early FM pioneers was ruined when Sarnoff lobbied to allocate his frequencies for another purpose, for example.
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