Imagine if we got rid of all the licensing bullshit and all you needed was $20 to get a few minutes broadcast time and a "Journalist" tag. That's the world I want to live in. I mean, I don't watch TV or have any interest in being on TV, but it would be wild.
Exactly. Everything should be more like that. Established stations have too much authority which gives long-standing networks undeserved credibility. TV frequencies aren't "property" anyway. It's as vacuous a concept as IP. IIRC the FCC didn't even get as powerful as it is until FDR decided he wanted to clamp down on opposition voices.
Imagine if we got rid of all the licensing bullshit and all you needed was $20 to get a few minutes broadcast time and a "Journalist" tag. That's the world I want to live in. I mean, I don't watch TV or have any interest in being on TV, but it would be wild.
We already do and have for decades it's called Public Access.
Exactly. Everything should be more like that. Established stations have too much authority which gives long-standing networks undeserved credibility. TV frequencies aren't "property" anyway. It's as vacuous a concept as IP. IIRC the FCC didn't even get as powerful as it is until FDR decided he wanted to clamp down on opposition voices.