#RadioWorld

DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanicdrrjv@vmst.io
2025-03-23

Why We Need “Shortwave 2.0”
#RadioWorld

Internet, increasingly blocked

Because of the internet’s ability to move uncensored news and opinion within nations and across boundaries, it was seen as a transformative tool for #democracy.

But, soon enough, regimes developed methods to block information they did not want coming into their countries. Prominent among these are China’s “Great Firewall” and Iran’s “Halal Internet.”

radioworld.com/columns-and-vie

Text Shot: Circumvention tools and VPNs have emerged to allow access to websites and platforms that have been blocked. The circumvention tools work only as long data is on the lines. Ultimately the lines can be switched off or cut. In this circumstance, no circumvention tool will work other than wireless ones. 

Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet. And it can’t be tracked.

This brings us to “Shortwave 2.0.” 

Shortwave 2.0 won’t reach the audience of millions as in the heyday of shortwave decades ago. It will reach those who seek comprehensive, reliable, credible information.A photo giving an example of receiving text via shortwave. An Android device with the necessary app sits next to a portable shortwave radio. No patch cord.Portrait of the author of the guest commentary in Radio World, Kim Andrew Elliott. A headshot of an older, white male person with glasses, a blue shirt and a grey jacket.A green field with antennas. It is a curtain array antenna used by WRMI in Florida to reach Europe. Credit: Jeff White/WRMI
2024-06-22

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