[522] in libertarians
Re: Free Radio Berkeley
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis Corcoran)
Wed Dec 21 11:10:52 1994
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 94 11:07:16 EST
From: tjic@ICD.teradyne.com (Travis Corcoran)
To: dersh@MIT.EDU
Cc: magnusn@algonet.se, theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <v01510107ab1dbb6a99c2@[129.55.44.49]> (dersh@MIT.EDU)
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 94 11:02:05 EST
> From: dersh@MIT.EDU (Adam Dershowitz)
>
> At 4:38 PM 12/21/94, Magnus Nilsson wrote:
> >On Wed, 21 Dec 1994, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
> >
> >
> >It would still be a cost for uphoulding the rights to the frequencies, I
> >suppose. The important thing is that the frequence you got is really
> >owned by you, so you acn lend money on it, sell it or peel of parts of it
> >by using better techniqe. I think that a person named Glen Whtiman has
> >wrote a study on the topic for CATO institute.
> >
> >magnus
>
> Not necessarily. It is possible to not have anyone own a frequency. You
> can just transmit where and when you want. You can set up a soap box and
> speak where and when you want. If someone else is talking then go find
> another soap box, or try to talk loader than them. Set up a bigger
> transmitter, or go find a free frequency.
>
> I am not saying this is best way. I am just saying that it would be
> possible and would be the true free market way to do things, in my opinion.
I think the free market is based pretty strongly on the concept of
property. This system strikes me as the broadcasting equivilant to
saying "no one can own land...if someone throws garbage in your yard,
you can make bigger lawn furniture to cover it up with, or you can
move".
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