Drones and Censorship (Page 2): Yes, I'm an Endowment member, and a retired gunsmith!!

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

lev29 wrote:

Oh, G-d! You must be pro-NRA. :lol: ✌🏼️ 8-)

Yes, I'm an Endowment member, and a retired gunsmith!!

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

sirlensalot wrote:

TV news announced last night that anyone who either purchases a drone or has a done they have already purchased must register it with the federal government or face penalties if not registered by that date. I think it was sometime in February of next year. Some may see this as a form of censorship, others may just see it as another tax or registration fee as you would pay for a vehicle. I guess the federal government now owns the air around and above us too.

You can't even imagine. Get this...

Verizon wanted to take over a 2.x GHz band that was already in use by a few TV stations, some wireless landline phone systems, and the wireless microphone and instrument systems that singers and musicians use that were located in areas of the frequency bands between the TV stations. They were creating a new cell phone band and didn't want any interference there.

So Verizon PAID THE FCC (a government-funded agency which has no legal right to sell public airspace) $3 BILLION to have exclusive rights to that air space and the FCC immediately put out notices that anybody found using any electronic device in that zone after a certain date, which was just a couple months away, would be fined and jailed for doing so.

So we end up with small TV stations who had decided to stay analog, and not go digital, vanishing completely instead. Home phones in that band? Illegal. And...

Because hundreds of thousands of people had bought wireless microphone and instrument systems that operated there, the manufacturers had to notify all registered users to cease usage immediately, send their units in for switching to a new frequency (or as a trade-in for units that weren't switchable), and the manufacturers were forced to lose millions and millions of their own money over this. The FCC should have foot the bill because they took in $3 BILLION but they didn't even offer a dime. Plus some who couldn't afford the swap outs had to bankrupt. Others lost customers forever who were using older units that weren't covered under warranty because the customers thought it was the manufacturers fault.

FCC bullies were sent out with vehicles equipped with detection equipment for that specific frequency band and they drove around cities looking for violations. Several prestigious church leaders had armed agents bust in during services, sometimes with military gear and assault rifles, and make a big deal out of arresting the pastor or worship leader and the sound engineer operating the wireless mics, made the arrests into big publicity to prove their point, etc. Even large rock concerts were invaded and arrests made.

The whole industry was in an uproar, the manufacturers didn't know where to go for a frequency band for a while because the FCC wouldn't give them a locked area that would be theirs permanently, and wireless system sales came to an screeching halt for almost two years until it got sorted out. Meanwhile dishonest online vendors started pumping out excess inventory of NOS wireless systems in the old illegal band at greatly discounted prices to the ignorant public who didn't know any of this so they could get busted. You get your new wireless system from a clearance place with no returns allowed, and a big sticker announces that it can't be used until it's updated. The update costs more than the unit or isn't available at all. Nice...

So the government owns the air you fly in, owns the air you send radio waves through, now is going to charge you to fly your toy drone through the air of your back yard or anybody else's, and thinks they own the air you breath as they take penalties and fees from manufacturers with smoke stack scrubbers.

A company in Colorado is now bottling compressed Colorado air by the case and selling it in China for equivalent to $10 to $14 per bottle so the people can take their masks off long enough to get a swig of fresh from the can carried in-pocket.

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

marcomarks wrote:

You can't even imagine. Get this...

Verizon wanted to take over a 2.x GHz band that was already in use by a few TV stations, some wireless landline phone systems, and the wireless microphone and instrument systems that singers and musicians use that were located in areas of the frequency bands between the TV stations. They were creating a new cell phone band and didn't want any interference there.

So Verizon PAID THE FCC (a government-funded agency which has no legal right to sell public airspace) $3 BILLION to have exclusive rights to that air space and the FCC immediately put out notices that anybody found using any electronic device in that zone after a certain date, which was just a couple months away, would be fined and jailed for doing so.

So we end up with small TV stations who had decided to stay analog, and not go digital, vanishing completely instead. Home phones in that band? Illegal. And...

Because hundreds of thousands of people had bought wireless microphone and instrument systems that operated there, the manufacturers had to notify all registered users to cease usage immediately, send their units in for switching to a new frequency (or as a trade-in for units that weren't switchable), and the manufacturers were forced to lose millions and millions of their own money over this. The FCC should have foot the bill because they took in $3 BILLION but they didn't even offer a dime. Plus some who couldn't afford the swap outs had to bankrupt. Others lost customers forever who were using older units that weren't covered under warranty because the customers thought it was the manufacturers fault.

FCC bullies were sent out with vehicles equipped with detection equipment for that specific frequency band and they drove around cities looking for violations. Several prestigious church leaders had armed agents bust in during services, sometimes with military gear and assault rifles, and make a big deal out of arresting the pastor or worship leader and the sound engineer operating the wireless mics, made the arrests into big publicity to prove their point, etc. Even large rock concerts were invaded and arrests made.

The whole industry was in an uproar, the manufacturers didn't know where to go for a frequency band for a while because the FCC wouldn't give them a locked area that would be theirs permanently, and wireless system sales came to an screeching halt for almost two years until it got sorted out. Meanwhile dishonest online vendors started pumping out excess inventory of NOS wireless systems in the old illegal band at greatly discounted prices to the ignorant public who didn't know any of this so they could get busted. You get your new wireless system from a clearance place with no returns allowed, and a big sticker announces that it can't be used until it's updated. The update costs more than the unit or isn't available at all. Nice...

So the government owns the air you fly in, owns the air you send radio waves through, now is going to charge you to fly your toy drone through the air of your back yard or anybody else's, and thinks they own the air you breath as they take penalties and fees from manufacturers with smoke stack scrubbers.

A company in Colorado is now bottling compressed Colorado air by the case and selling it in China for equivalent to $10 to $14 per bottle so the people can take their masks off long enough to get a swig of fresh from the can carried in-pocket.

You can't even imagine. Get this... br br Verizo... (show quote)

Politics at it's finest. Just another example of a modern day "Boardwalk Empire". Money buys a lot. A lot of money buys anything and everything, including the government and our air. Amazing! And politicians seem surprised why people don't trust them?