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posted by takyon on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:02PM   Printer-friendly
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Mill Valley joins effort to constrain 5G proliferation

The city of Mill Valley has enacted an urgency ordinance to regulate "small cell" towers amid concerns that cellphone companies want to grow their 5G networks and install new equipment in Marin. "We do intend to do more work and studies to craft a permanent ordinance within the next year," Mill Valley Mayor Stephanie Moulton-Peters said Friday. "The urgency ordinance has standards to limit and prohibit the installations of devices in residential neighborhoods, but there is more that we can do."

The decision came on a unanimous vote by the City Council on Thursday, after residents from across Marin packed the council chambers as part of a campaign urging local officials to block cellphone companies from attempting to build 5G towers in the county. No proposals for 5G towers have been submitted to Mill Valley, staff said.

The issue is that 5G towers, which would allow for faster and higher-capacity video streaming and other transmissions, could exacerbate health symptoms already suspected as a result of exposure to electromagnetic fields, according to the EMF Safety Network, a group advocating to keep communities EMF-free. Those symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, sleep problems, anxiety, heart problems, learning and memory disorders, ringing in the ears and increased cancer risk, according to the EMF Safety Network website.

"What 5G does is it adds another cloud to what we refer to as 'electromagnetic smog' into an environment that is already pretty saturated," said Fairfax resident and activist Valeri Hood. "In Fairfax, what we're doing is asking our council to step up in the way councils have in the past, and just say no to 5G."

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 12 2018, @01:07AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 12 2018, @01:07AM (#733425) Journal

    There is "locking people up", and there is "restricting an irrational person's movement to safe places".

    Yes, I'm aware of the horror stories about asylums from the days of my youth. I am afraid that we over reacted to those horror stories, and threw the baby out with the bathwater. The loonies really should be restricted. They should be restricted primarily for their own benefit, and secondarily for the public's benefit.

    Round up the loonies, and put them into a pleasant facility, where they will be safe. No medical experiments. They only take meds if they want to. They don't even have to sleep in an assigned bed. Let them sleep outside on the sidewalk if they insist. Or, beside the creek. Allow them to burn hot dogs over an open fire beside the creek. But, don't let them wander off, into traffic, into a school yard, or an industrial area, or whatever. They have to stay at the facility, unless and until they demonstrate that they can properly take care of themselves.

    It's a shame that we can't treat the loonies humanely. I guess it's a lot more fun bombing terrists than treating loonies.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @02:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @02:00AM (#733436)

    "restricting an irrational person's movement to safe places"

    But then you get all the but my freedoms activists coming out again.

    threw the baby out with the bathwater

    yup. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html [nytimes.com]