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China Bans Foreign Technology

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China is a country that is plagued with speculation from government officials. It's no secret that the Chinese government want their entire population to be kept in the dark on certain issues. This has led them to ban several "Western" news outlets and technology. Ideally the Chinese government doesn't want anything that is not Chinese in their country, news, technology, ISP's and everything where the general public could find out things about China that the government doesn't want them to know. China has banned sites such as Facebook, The Intercept, YouTube, All Google Services, Twitter, Dropbox, Foursquare and Flickr (BBC). There are also several news sites, such as CNN, that are allowed, but with a catch. The CNN broadcasting for China comes from a satellite, that is owned by the Chinese government. This means the news segments are altered or cut out by Chinese officials depending on if it meets their guidelines or not. This is the same with all America...

The Dangers of 5G

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5G is a revolutionary new technology with speeds ranging from 50mb/s to over 1gb/s. Most people will have access to mid-band 5G which will deliver speeds from 100-400 mb/s. This sounds great and all but the fact is, we don't know enough about 5G. 5G is short for 5th Generation, which is better than 4G which is better than 3G and so on. Each generation gets leaps and bounds faster than the previous generation. With 5G the wavelengths are shorter, this allows for faster speeds but greatly reduced range and power. Studies have shown that things like buildings, trees or even rain in between your 5G phone, and the nodes (the transmitters of the cellular data) can often greatly reduce speeds or cancel them out all together. 134 Proposed 5G Small Cell Nodes Planned For The City Of Lafayette, Several Already In Place To fix this problem, cellular providers will have to place these nodes very frequently and have them transmit with insane amounts of power. This is where the public ge...