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It looks like there are a couple of disinformation campaigns against cellphone infrastructure and particularly 5G right now. One is aimed at retargeting environ
by w0mbat 8y ago
It looks like there are a couple of disinformation campaigns against cellphone infrastructure and particularly 5G right now. One is aimed at retargeting environmentalists to fight harmless cell towers instead of bothering industry by fighting global warming. The other looks like the usual Russian campaign to slow down the tech progress of other nations. For example there was a widely shared story that a 5G test killed a flock of birds in The Hague, which was completely false (check Snopes).
- zzzcpan 8y agoAlso could be coming from competing industries. Like you can find articles from ISP, telco suppliers in their own media pushing propaganda about harmful wifi without even bothering to hide that the whole thing is completely fabricated.
- xchip 8y agoCan you explain why we need 5G when 4G is already working very well?
- zzzcpan 8y agoAs consumers we don't need it. If it was up to us we would never agree to invest so much into this tech for so little gain. But all those giant corporations always want to sell you more devices, more expensive services, show you ads faster, track you and spy on you better, make more excuses to raise prices, harm competition, etc.
- w0mbat 8y ago4G is very patchy in some urban areas and doesn't give quite the speed needed to make it so you don't need Wi-Fi/broadband at home. 5G has a hierarchy of connections at different frequencies to give better coverage.