Should be interesting to see what the drones decide is violent in cities with large mosquito populations.
The ham radio thing has thrown me for a loop. Especially Voice of America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
>Some scholars and commentators consider Voice of America to be a form of propaganda.[6][7] In response to the United States Department of Justice request that RT register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, December 2017 saw Russia's Justice Ministry label Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as foreign agents.[8][9]
>From 1948 until its repeal in 2013, Voice of America was forbidden to broadcast directly to American citizens under § 501 of the Smith–Mundt Act.[6] The act was repealed as a result of the passing of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013.[7] The intent of the legislation in 1948 was to protect the American public from propaganda actions by their own government.[45]
Are there a lot of people who still use ham radios? What the point of airing propaganda on them?
>Voice of America's central newsroom has hundreds of journalists and dozens of full-time domestic and overseas correspondents, who are employees of the U.S. government or paid contractors. They are augmented by hundreds of contract correspondents and stringers throughout the world, who file in English or in one of VOA's other radio and television broadcast languages.
Then there's the stuff about stringers.
>fter the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, several tweets by Voice of America (one of which was later removed) seemed to support the widely criticized statements by White House press secretary Sean Spicer about the crowd size and biased media coverage. This first raised concerns over possible attempts by Trump to politicize the state-funded agency.[59][60][61][62] This amplified already growing propaganda concerns over the provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, signed into law by Barack Obama, which replaced the board of the Broadcasting Board of Governors with a CEO appointed by the president and to allow the VOA to broadcast to American audiences. Trump sent two of his political aides, Matthew Ciepielowski and Matthew Schuck, to the agency to aid its current CEO in the transition to the Trump administration. Criticism was raised over Trump's choice of aides; Schuck was a staff writer for right-wing website The Daily Surge until April 2015, while Ciepielowski was a field director at the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity.[59] VOA officials responded with assurances that they would not become "Trump TV".[59] BBG head John F. Lansing told NPR that it would be illegal for the administration to tell VOA what to broadcast, while VOA director Amanda Bennett stressed that while "government-funded", the agency is not "government-run".[61]