Let's not forget the FCC also engages in extortion and censorship.

We all know about the infamous "7 deadly words" which will get your FCC "license" revoked and/or get you "fined" thousands of dollars. And if you don't bleep out these Big Bad Words or fail to pay up when you get a polite little extortion demand in the mail from the FCC, out come the armed thugs to your location to "insure compliance" (thugs who are "just doing their job", of course).

When the govt calls them "public airwaves", what they really mean are "government airwaves". The public lost control of the public air long ago.

-Van