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by I_Am_Nous 949 days ago
My original comment was made with regard to someone being incredulous that illegality would prevent someone from starting a business using encrypted ham bands. I said that the FCC fines are quite steep, implying that the risk of FCC fines for running an illegal encrypted broadcast would explain why someone would not like to be involved with such a business.

Obviously if the FCC opens up ham for encryption, it would be legal and totally fine. Currently it is not (the whole point of our conversation), and starting a business like that would be risky. You implied that the FCC can't fine you if they can't prove that you were sending encrypted traffic, and I argued that they'll still see the broadcasts and be able to tell they are encrypted.

So this is kind of a strange question for you to ask now lol
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MichaelZuo 949 days ago
> You implied that the FCC can't fine you if they can't prove that you were sending encrypted traffic...

Can you show where I implied that?

It sure doesn't seem to match my reading of the comment chain.

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I_Am_Nous 949 days ago
Your original reply to me saying the FCC gives out big fines:

>Which they can only do for unencrypted traffic, encrypted traffic by definition would not be examinable by the FCC for determining whether to assign fines.

If they can only fine unencrypted traffic, as you say in this comment, you posit that it is because they can't examine the contents of the encrypted transmission to know who to fine.

If you intended a different message, feel free to revise what you began our conversation with.

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MichaelZuo 949 days ago
It appears you are confused by the wording? Or perhaps your own double negation?

> You implied that the FCC can't fine you if they can't prove that you were sending encrypted traffic...

The quoted comment clearly does not imply that, if anything the opposite.

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I_Am_Nous 949 days ago
You positively asserted that they can only fine unencrypted traffic. You positively asserted that by definition, encrypted traffic could not be decoded to assign fines. By the logic of your comment, the FCC must decode the encrypted broadcasts to assign fines, which is false. They don't care what the broadcast contained. It violated RF restrictions. It gets fined if detected.

If you believe your comment implies anything else, you're going to have to explain your argument in more words than "it clearly does not imply that" because if it clearly implied what you claim, we wouldn't be arguing about what it "actually" means.

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MichaelZuo 948 days ago
> You positively asserted that they can only fine unencrypted traffic.

No? The FCC can implement a blanket fine on all encrypted traffic on ham radio bands, if authorized by congress, without doing any 'determining' at all.

It seems as if your reading your own opinions and thoughts into my comments.

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I_Am_Nous 948 days ago
That is categorically not what "Which they can only do for unencrypted traffic" means.
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