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Huey » 20 Jan 2017 1:47 pm » wrote: They are a paid subscriber cable network. Or thru sattelite.

They do not use the airwaves put aside by government.

Hence, no license like a radio or TV station.

Cannonpointer » 20 Jan 2017 1:51 pm » wrote:Cable companies are regulated monopolies. They can be told to drop stations which violate public standards. As to who should promulgate those standards, that has always been the FCC.

Sattelites likewise use ground based towers to bounce off, all over the place - and those frequencies ARE set aside and licensed, and can be policed.

A nation which has an out of control, utterly unanswerable mass-media, operated by multinational corporations, can hardly be considered sovereign.