5G is the next piece of the puzzle in the surveillance dystopia. Consider how much money has been spent to erect it. Who is paying the bill? Telecom companies are freely able to sell the data they accrue - that was the first step. 5G connects to every IoT device you own. It can make 3D representations of its surroundings https://www.here.com/en/company/newsroom/press-releases/2020... . It maps out the insides of buildings. It knows where people are located, by Verizon's own admission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmYk-yk0FXw . This is not about giving people faster internet speeds, or miraculous rescues after natural disasters.
Of course, the range of the transmitters is lower because the signals get absorbed by materials in the way. Trees and buildings absorb the radiation, and attenuate it, and thus, to be effective requires the installation of untold numbers of transmitters covering the world. If trees and buildings absorb the radiation, you can bet that your body and brain absorb them as well. We used to keep cell towers far away from people's homes; now we are putting higher frequency transmitters right in front of them. 5G is for surveillance and control. It is a weapon and this weapon is being pointed into people's bedrooms.
The "need" for 5G was so the govt-backdoored telecom companies can put wireless transmitters in every single neighborhood, to achieve more granular control in mass surveillance for profit and for targeted harassment. The FCC-sponsored transmitters are interacting with every "smart" device they can reach and reporting everything back to HQ. They're probably busy brute-forcing everyone's wifi passwords while they're at it, because why wouldn't they? But maybe that's just crazy. Maybe in reality they're just the good guys who care about streamlining our movie watching experiences.
Your argument here is that you trust Mark Zuckerberg's statement because Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't lie, because if Mark Zuckerberg lied, he would get into lots of trouble, and therefore to avoid getting into lots of trouble, Mark Zuckerberg obviously tells the truth.
I have trouble with this logic.
Also, I'm not quite clear - what are the consequences for lying to Congress?
The day is upon us.
I'm sure there are many HN readers here now who are actively working to build the open prison system that is America, because of money, power, NDAs, National Security, lies. Basically the only place I find "dissent" is in internet forums, which amounts to some high-falutin hot air being flung around, the same thing we've been doing for years. Most anyone who cares is too scared to do anything, because the government readily destroys any problematic individual or group. As an individual, you are powerless. If you group, they will know.
That it's now fashionable to install always-on microphones in people's homes, that we carry always-on cell phones broadcasting our information wherever we go, that the streets and skies are covered in cameras and sensors watching our every movement, yet we mill about with casual disregard for the implications, gives me little hope that, as citizens, we could ever collectively wake up or rise up. We are taught fear and hate and division. If we should ever forget, they'll remind us by writing messages with our blood. We point fingers at a bumbling scapegoat sitting in a temporary seat, while the real power lies off-camera.