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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 20 2020, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-stupidity-it-hurts-it-burns! dept.

Cell-tower attacks by idiots who claim 5G spreads COVID-19 reportedly hit US:

US warns carriers to boost security, citing reports of attacks in several states.

The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly issuing alerts to wireless telecom providers and law enforcement agencies about potential attacks on cell towers and telecommunications workers by 5G/coronavirus conspiracy theorists. The DHS warned that there have already been "arson and physical attacks against cell towers in several US states."

The preposterous claim that 5G can spread the coronavirus, either by suppressing the immune system or by directly transmitting the virus over radio waves, led to dozens of tower burnings in the UK and mainland Europe. Now, the DHS "is preparing to advise the US telecom industry on steps it can take to prevent attacks on 5G cell towers following a rash of incidents in Western Europe fueled by the false claim that the technology spreads the pathogen causing COVID-19," The Washington Post reported last week.

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FACT: 5G mobile networks DO NOT spread COVID-19!
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:32PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:32PM (#996869)

    Lets use empathy to look at this from the perspective of someone who wants to cause trouble for 5G operators.

    Maybe to make money shorting sell stock, maybe a foreign agent just trying to start trouble, union organizer with an axe to grind, plain old crazy anarchist, maybe to make money selling "protection", it doesn't matter exactly which reason.

    If they go public with something like "well, we figured we'd follow antifa's lead and use violence to promote our union views" or "China hired us to attack USA infrastructure" people are gonna freak out.

    But if they go to 4chan and shitpost a couple dozen threads about "5G causes cancer so burning down towers" then the lamestream legacy media will whip itself into a boomer frenzy "oh heckin not my precious cellphone-erinos" and they get pretty much free reign to accomplish their stock market short sell scam or their protection racket or whatever, while the internet spergs out about how everyone knows "electromagnetic radiation cannot cause bat aids".

    Its a pretty good disinfo campaign.

    Here's a really diabolical proposal. There were problems some years ago (like a decade) with a certain provider's fiber to the home neighborhood level equipment vaults catching fire. Something to do with faulty UPSes or bad ventilation old SLC-96 huts were never designed to dump that kind of heat... anyway my diabolical conspiracy theory is its the PR department of the 5G companies themselves knowing they have a problem with gear catching fire and there's gonna be another "CA wildfire" type event sooner or later caused by their poorly cooled fire starting equipment, so to head it off "the fires are actually caused by people dumb enough to think towers cause chinese flu aka bat aids aka the beer virus".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:33PM (#996902)

    Said better, earlier and without the political snark about 5 posts up. /redundant

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @03:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @03:29PM (#999236)

    Diabolical? Not really. Bullshit? Yes.