I’ve often wondered why it’s illegal to encrypt conversations on public radio frequencies but not illegal on the public telephone network, cell phone network or the public internet
“I’ve often wondered why it’s illegal to encrypt conversations on public radio frequencies but not illegal on the public telephone network, cell phone network or the public internet”
Probably to keep the shared bandwidth from being saturated with automated messaging. Circuit switching (phones) and packet switching (internet) have their own bandwidth. Broadcasting (radio) is shared bandwidth.
They did not want to waste time decoding silly private discussions between friends when they are trying to track down Nazi, Soviet, or Chinese spies.