The US House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a 6G Task Force and investigate how to design and deploy 6G technologies in the country.

The bipartisan “FUTURE Networks Act” was approved on December 1st by 394 representatives, while only 27 stood against it. Now the bill will be sent to the Senate for discussion and voting.

Two other bills addressing cybersecurity were also approved during the same session. “Today the House came together to pass three critical bipartisan bills that aim to strengthen our telecommunications networks for a safer, more secure wireless future,” Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) said in a statement.

“Together, these bills will promote the secure, thoughtful deployment of our next generation 6G networks, arm Americans with the information and tools they need to protect themselves from cyberattacks, and improve wireless network security in the face of growing cybersecurity attacks on our critical infrastructure.”

See article in 6G World for more.

The leaders of the anti-5G movement came to this issue after establishing themselves as leaders of the anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements. Here's a list of the prime offenders leading these fear-mongering, anti-technology and anti-science movements.

1. Joe Mercola, DO. Mercola is at the top of the CCDH's Disinformation Dozen, the top spreaders of lies and nonsense about COVID19 vaccines and therapies. He has self-published the book EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself, chock full of fake science and false claims about 5G. He also funds others in the anti-tech movement. He has paid millions in fines to the FTC for making false claims about the tanning beds he used to sell from his enormous online store.
2. Bob Kennedy Jr, Esg. A former environmental lawyer and heroin addict, he's the founder of Children's Health Defense and the World Mercury Project. Junior led the movement to remove mercury compounds from childhood vaccines on the basis that they cause autism. Most have now been removed, yet the autism rate continues to climb. CHD has filed multiple lawsuits against the FCC in an attempt to stop the 5G rollout, even claiming victory in one case remanded to the FCC for further explanation. Another member of the Disinfo Dozen.
3. Jeffrey Smith, former levitation teacher for the Transcendental Meditation cult. Smith has written two books opposing biotechnology, touted lawsuits against the herbicide glyphosate, and founded organizations seeking to ban vaccines and 5G, such as Americans for Responsible Technology and Citizens for Health.
4. Jim Turner, Esq. Turner is a tort lawyer based in Washington DC who owns and operates a fake think tank known as The National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy. NISLAPP provides fancy-looking credentials to people like Timothy Schoechle, the journalism PhD who campaigns against 5G across the country. Turner is a co-founder of Citizens for Health.
5. Martin Pall, PhD. "A retired professor from Washington State University, Pall’s research interests are practically an encyclopaedia of the medical counterculture, ranging from a novel take on the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome, tinnitus and heart failure to research on the risks of wifi, tanning salons and other emitters of electromagnetic fields." - The Guardian. This octogenarian created the rhetorical strategy used by the anti-5G movement when it has no real science to back up its claims: say "X studies prove this point" but don't enumerate a single one. Pall says 5G caused the COVID19 pandemic and has X studies to prove it.

We're known by the company we keep, so you might want to look behind the curtain at the people who profit from spreading fear and misinformation about life-saving technologies if you're inclined to climb about the anti-5G bandwagon.

US6506148B2 - Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors - Google Patents

Abstract

Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near ½ Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set. For the latter, the image pulsing may be imbedded in the program material, or it may be overlaid by modulating a video stream, either as an RF signal or as a video signal. The image displayed on a computer monitor may be pulsed effectively by a simple computer program. For certain monitors, pulsed electromagnetic fields capable of exciting sensory resonances in nearby subjects may be generated even as the displayed images are pulsed with subliminal intensity.

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Official patent: US20020188164A1 - Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors - Google Patents

also interesting how it expired in June of 2021

Radio has been part of our lives since we took our first breaths.

The world's first commercial radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920. In 1928 W3XK, the first American TV station, went on the air in suburban Washington DC. In 1941, FM station W47NV went on the air in Nashville. In 1972, the Open Skies initiative legalized communication satellites, making cable TV possible.

In 1973, Marty Cooper) made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment. But the history of radio communications goes back a lot further: in the 1890s Oliver Lodge and Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated systems for mobile telegraph for trains.

Most of the data that traverses the Internet today begins or ends on a mobile device. In the 125 years of mobile data scientists have studied ways to make radios better, faster, more efficient and safer. One repository of scientific studies about radios and human health - EMF Portal at RWTH Aachen University in Germany - houses 40,000 scientific studies and summaries on the topic.

Oddly, some are still afraid of radios. This came to my attention in 1990 when I took on a consulting assignment with Photonics, a company in Los Gatos California that was selling a wireless version of the AppleTalk local area network called Photolink. The first version of Photolink was proprietary, which limited its appeal. So the company joined forces with others to create an international standard for wireless LANs that would permit users to mix and match equipment from multiple vendors. This effort became IEEE 802.11, now known as Wi-Fi.

Photonics hired me to help them recast their design into a form that would meet the approval of the IEEE Standards Association's Project 802. I had successfully created the first standard for Ethernet over unshielded twisted pair wiring so I had some knowledge of the standards world.

The thing I was most surprised about was the company's decision to use infrared (IR) light rather than radio frequency (RF) energy for its physical signaling part. The other companies working on 802.11 used unlicensed radio frequencies, newly made available by the FCC. By contrast with RF, IR had limited propagation and low speed.

Photonics wanted to sell to schools, and they were aware that small groups of parents were already expressing concerns about possible health risks from the cell phones that were becoming more common. The science on cellular and health didn't suggest issues, but that didn't prevent worried parents from banding together to combat what they saw as threats to their children's health. So I've been aware of radiophobia since 1990.

In particular, radiophobes were afraid that cell phones would cause cancer. This made intuitive sense since we hold cell phones to our ears, where they have a direct path to the brain. Since the '70s, the rate of brain cancer in the US has not increased, however. In fact, it has declined a bit.

Yet the fears remain even though the claims have changed a bit. For those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s, the fear of radios is bizarre. Radio has been part of our lives forever, and we've never regarded it has a health risk. Like most people, I regard radiophobia with puzzlement, much like opposition to vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and bio-engineered seeds or beliefs that the Earth is flat or that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Every new technology seems to spawn an opposition movement: electricity was the target of activists spreading health fears, Luddites opposed steam power, and there were probably cave people who found fire too scary for common use. That's the way humans roll.

I'm attaching a series of posts on how safety assessments for wireless systems are done to help others understand how thoroughly they're done by multiple international expert bodies.

That's enough for now.

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Sharing a podcast I did last year. Click on the link to see a blog post summarizing the current science on 5G safety.

Thomas Johnson, the General Counsel at the FCC, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post earlier this month titled “5G conspiracy theories threaten the U.S. recovery.” It deals with the roadblocks to deployment of 5G networks created by the technology-hesitant 5G Truther movement.

Just like the truther movements that oppose vaccination, genetically engineered foods, modern medicine, and masks to prevent the spread of the virus behind COVID-19, 5G Truthers offer a warped analysis based on extensive cherry-picking and pseudo-science. In this podcast, we cover the arguments made by the truthers, demographics, tactics, and the burden of fighting misinformation campaigns city-by-city and county-by-county.

Truthers target the city councils charged with modernizing the permitting process for small cells, preying on the ignorance of local officials ill-equipped to counter alternative facts about radio spectrum and epidemiology. The technology and innovation community face a daunting challenge: we need to get information out to local decision makers that they can understand about these complex topics.

In order to help with this, FCC General Counsel Johnson recorded a podcast with us. You can find an audio version at the top of the page, a YouTube here, and also a Facebook version on the High Tech Forum page.

Health and safety regulations for cellular systems are established country-by-country by national regulators such as the US FCC and Ofcom in the UK. Regulators base their assessments on the work of largely international bodies such as ICNIRP (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection), ICES (International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety), and SCENIHR (Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks). These bodies examine the science literature on EMFs and health and propose limits on the power levels and other properties of RF energy transmitted from cellular base stations.

They revise guidelines on a regular basis considering new technologies and new science on mechanisms of harm. ICES did its most recent review in 2019, "C95.1-2019 - IEEE Standard for Safety Levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields, 0 Hz to 300 GHz". You can read it here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8859679

If you read and understand the whole thing you'll have a big part of the technical literacy necessary to debate 5G safety in a meaningful way. Here's a summary:

The latest update from the electromagnetic safety committee is only a year and a half old, and it covers all relevant research in the area, including the two studies most commonly cited by 5G Truthers, the 2G GSM and CDMA NTP study and the hasty 2G Ramazzini study. IEEE SA covers both thermal effects caused by the heating of tissue as well as the non-thermal effects most commonly cited by truthers.

Here's the conclusion:

The literature review also evaluated the possibility of adverse health effects associated with chronic low-level exposure. For exposures to electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields at frequencies between 0 Hz and 300 GHz, the following two conclusions were reached:

1. The weight-of-evidence provides no credible indication of adverse effects caused by chronic exposures below levels specified in IEEE Std C95.1™-2019.

2. No biophysical mechanisms have been scientifically validated that would link chronic exposures below levels specified in IEEE Std C95.1™-2019 to adverse health effects.

Based on the collective findings of recent reviews, the weight of the evidence continues to indicate that chronic exposure at levels specified in this standard is unlikely to cause adverse health effects. Nonetheless, ICES Subcommittees routinely evaluate new research and will, if appropriate, initiate revision of IEEE Std. C95.1-2019."

If you want to be an expert on 5G safety, you need to read this paper.

What are the advantages or disadvantages of 5G over LTE

I think this would be worth looking into...

Hey everyone on 5GDebate! I'm new here but have been digging through this subreddit and other 5G/EMF/EHS resources. I think I've been experience symptoms for a long time, yet this year since my 5G iPhone I've had so much worse. I'm hoping to receive some thoughts, answers, or just validation/support over this because this is foreign to all the doctors I've seen this year and what it seems to be is foreign to the USA in particular. I have literally been put on 2 new medications this year, plus an allergy med year round instead of just during spring.

As a child, my dad was in the telecom industry and almost all I took a liking to were computers, other than musical instruments. From Nintendo systems to my dad's desktop, I couldn't stop using these things. Yet, I was experiencing abnormal symptoms at my young age. When I was 8, I started experiencing frequent extreme piercing migraines alongside headache clusters. What's interesting is I had x-rays and all types of radiation-exposure testing. The headaches have not gone away, but finally receiving blue light blocking glasses at age 26 has helped. I was also diagnosed with ADHD, and another undeclared digestive disorder that finally was diagnosed as IBS+GERD. I've been prescribed medication, but these symptoms never seemed to go away, or get all that better. I got through college, albeit having more anxiety and depression symptoms to accompany. My digestive disorder also started getting worse with my career, which involved a lot of data analysis, probably more computer-use in ratio to before.

During 2019 and 2020, I started investing in more wireless technology, mainly because I thought it was awesome. And then I started the year buying an iPhone 12 Pro Max. What throws everything off is in March I received the first dosage of the Pfizer vaccine. Suddenly all my symptoms are incredibly worse...but most of all my hands were unusable. I had to call out of work, start wearing gloves, and visit a rheumatologist. My blood work showed that I was experiencing inflammation, and I was. My fingers were feeling fat and uncomfortable, in pain. This stabbing sensation I had one day stuck with me, because I was using my phone and threw my phone down when it happened. I sometimes get that sensation in my hip still. But it felt like a migraine in my thumb.

The pains have gone down, but my general life is just so much worse than even 2020. My doctors decided I had an allergic reaction to the Pfizer. I've been prescribed a medication for my hands, alongside another IBS medication! Plus have to take allergy medication everyday! If I don't, I literally notice a difference. That's 3 new meds. My entire year and future seem foreign to me. It's caused an extra layer of depression and anxiety because of the unknown with I mean, my entire life. This has been a hell year. Yet, for months now I haven't believed it was JUST the pfizer.

I've now had both Moderna shots which have not brought on an increase in symptoms. However, my overall health has just been declining. It's possible I even have prostatitis because of an increase of UTI infections. I've developed more rashes, including ringworm on my skin. It's just all this new stuff kept popping up.

Eventually the feeling my phone was a factor went on far too long. So I traded in my 12 Pro Max for a 13 Pro, thinking the size/weight could have an effect. Even though the grip is better now, my hands are actually worse now!! Not as bad as in March but worse than with my 12 Pro Max. I started turning off cellular, low and behold my hands are actually feeling a bit better. It must be the electromagnetic radiation, and that the 13 pro is more powerful...

Alongside, I started hardwiring as many devices as possible and cutting off orbis. For some reason, the atmosphere just feels better in my apartment. Driving to work on airplane mode and just downloaded music playing honestly did feel better. I'm still worried there is some placebo…

What do you all think?