Editing Pirate radio (section)

==Free radio==

Another variation on the term ''pirate radio'' came about during the "[[Summer of Love]]" in [[San Francisco]] during the 1960s. "Free radio" usually referred to secret and unlicensed land-based transmissions. These were also tagged as being pirate radio transmissions. Free Radio was used only to refer to radio transmissions that were beyond government control{{Citation needed|reason=That doesn't seem to match up with primary sources.|date=September 2022}}, as was offshore radio in the UK and Europe.

The term ''free radio'' was adopted by the Free Radio Association of listeners who defended the rights of the offshore radio stations broadcasting from ships and marine structures off the [[coastline of the United Kingdom]].

[[Félix Guattari]] points out:

{{quote|Technological development, and in particular the miniaturization of transmitters and the fact that they can be put together by amateurs, 'encounters' a collective aspiration for some new means of expression.|Félix Guattari<ref>Félix Guattari. "Plan for the Planet". In ''Molecular Revolution. Psychiatry and Politics''. London: Penguin Books, 1984. p. 269.</ref>}}