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Think you're hot shit because you get to piss people off through the confines of a keyboard? That's cute. Before 1912 when the first law regulating radio broadcasting in the airwaves hit, "wireless telegraphy" that was invented in the 1890s by Hertz & Co. was chaotic. There was numerous interference issues, including conflicts between amateur radio operators and the U.S. Navy and commercial companies, with a few amateur radio enthusiasts alleged to have sent fake distress calls and obscene messages to naval radio stations, and to have forged naval commands, sending navy boats on spurious missions. In fact, just twelve days after the US admitted it would comply with the conditions set by the folks attending the 1906 Radiotelegraph Convention in Berlin, the Titanic sunk and thousands died because the emergency signal that was broadcasted by wireless operators on board the Titanic was received in Newfoundland, but as the news broke, amateur radio operators on the U.S. East Coast filled the airwaves with radio noise that prevented the distress signal from being relayed promptly.
There was another law that followed up in 1927 that mentioned free speech as an issue, which resulted in them regulating everything you can say and who can become licensed to even become an amateur radio operator from the start. In 1910 there was a law that required ships to have radios and made it so that the captain or whoever's in charge on board needs to operate it, but that only applied to people on boats, not individual programmers/stations.
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www.mtsu.edu
mtsu.edu
en.m.wikipedia.org
en.m.wikipedia.org
There was another law that followed up in 1927 that mentioned free speech as an issue, which resulted in them regulating everything you can say and who can become licensed to even become an amateur radio operator from the start. In 1910 there was a law that required ships to have radios and made it so that the captain or whoever's in charge on board needs to operate it, but that only applied to people on boats, not individual programmers/stations.
Sources:
Radio Act of 1927 (1927)
The Radio Act of 1927 created a commission to license broadcasters. Underlying the act was the assumption that radio was expression protected by the First Amendment.
www.mtsu.edu
Radio Act of 1912 (1912)
The Radio Act of 1912 for the first time gave the government control over the broadcast spectrum, leading to First Amendment quandaries in later years.
mtsu.edu
Radio Act of 1912 - Wikipedia
Radio Act of 1927 - Wikipedia
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