Your Wireless Router Gives the Feds the Right to Search Your Home
Your wireless router, even a cordless phone or baby monitor gives the FCC the right to enter your home without a warrant to inspect the device. Wired.com reports on several cases of warrant less “inspections” by the FCC of suspected pirate radio broadcasters. But according to the FCC it doesn’t end there:
“Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference,” says FCC spokesman David Fiske. That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.
Lew Rockwell of the Mises Institute commented on Freedom Watch this week that the Federal Reserve is “the central institution of evil” and that is certainly true, but it is not the only one. The very existence of the FCC is an inherent threat to the first amendment and apparently the fourth amendment as well. Even if, and I don’t, you grant the notion that the FCC is needed to manage competing claims to radio frequencies, it is impossible to defend giving the commission this sort of unconstitutional power.
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