Target 16 of 31
Today’s target
ABOLISHFCC
Federal Communications Commission
Free speech, licensed by the government.
Official story
What they claim to do
Regulates interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
Ground truth
What they actually do
Decides who may broadcast, fines stations over indecency, and approves or blocks media mergers. That licensing power has long invited political pressure on broadcasters.
The libertarian case
Spectrum is a scarce resource, and property rights can allocate it like any other, as economist Ronald Coase argued back in 1959. A licensing bureaucracy rewards incumbents and gives government leverage over speech. Auction spectrum as property, settle interference in court, and retire the censor.
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