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pravda on Oct 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please, keep paying $80 a month for cable so I can...

Yes, and the broadcast companies don't pay a cent of rent. Why are the public airwaves given free to private corporations?

Why shouldn't, for example, CBS be charged a modest $1,000,000,000/year for their use of the public airwaves?

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