Re: FCC gives ultimatum to Radio Free Brattleboro

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>
To: "'Shawn Mamros'" <mamros@MIT.EDU>; "'Aaron Read'" <aread@speakeasy.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: RE: FCC gives ultimatum to Radio Free Brattleboro


> From what I've seen, the FCC
> generally doesn't care about this type of operation until someone
complains.
> Once someone complains they have to act.  Since RFB decided to make this a
> public spectacle rather than being quiet about it, the FCC had no choice
but
> to come down again on them.

This would be typical of enforcement by government agencies at the federal,
state, and local level.  If you walk through any neighborhood, you can find
all sorts of code violations but the city doesn't usually come down on
people unless there has been a complaint or the offender makes their
violation so obvious that it can't be ignored.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine