Side benefit: Terrestrial radio will start to suck less.
Radio is just one big ad nowadays. Couldn’t suck worse but I have faith that they’ll figure out how to make it so.
Back in the day normal folks owned radio stations. I went to public school with a guy whose family had been running a few stations for years.
Since it was locally run you’d actually get local bands played, and local sports broadcasts. And DJs who could play songs they liked instead of the same 50 songs in a loop.
We had a community owned station here in St. Louis called Kdhx that used to be so fucking awesome but some greedy fuck got put in charge and ran it into the ground and now it’s in the process of being sold to some Christian network or some shit. Really a bummer cos a station like that was just so great and locally informative without any purpose other than to help promote the arts of the community
Community radio kicks ass. My local community radio is the only station I’ll ever tune to.
I wasn’t expecting the media here to be some bullwork against fascism, but I also didn’t expect them to roll over so easily.
censorship relies on consolidation to work. It’s not that there can’t be attempts to exert political control in decentralized media ecosystems, it’s just that it doesn’t work very well. If there are a lot of newspapers, controlling what one of them says doesn’t much matter.
Let’s keep decentralizing
