The powerful always set the areas of discussion. Whether school uniform was good or bad in terms of hiding wealth differences between pupils. When ever regulation is discussed we get the arguement of scarce frequencies, therefore the kind government must help organise this situation. Just like the school example, the debate has been sidetracked by the most powerful. It is not a question of technicality, but of control .
Listeners are the all important factor.
The government initially had a monopoly over transmissions but found that it was losing its grip - it had to allow other transmissions. To compensate for this loss of control, it demanded money. This is why we have pirates and always will, the government can not claw back any benefit from this loss of control and reacts with brute force We now have the possible same situation about to develop on the internet. It has always been assumed, by ideadlists, that cyberspace is infinite and thus offers freedom . This is not the case.