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Adopt New 5G Regulations - YES

5G—the next generation of "small-cell" wireless technology—promises to be much faster than anything we currently have, enabling all sorts of new commercial and military uses. As such, the Trump Administration has identified early US dominance in 5G as a national security priority.

Unfortunately, there are also seemingly valid concerns about the potential health and environmental effects of 5G radiation that have not yet been adequately studied. While the scientific consensus is still out on whether 5G poses any harm to human health, the precautionary principle—the idea that we shouldn't expose entire communities to a new technology before we know it's safe to do so—has led to a broad pushback against the implementation of 5G at the local level.

Not to be deterred by mere medical science, the FCC—controlled since the beginning of the Trump era by lobbyists and conflicted officials with industry ties (Trump's FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, used to work for Verizon)—issued an edict barring local jurisdictions from regulating 5G technology in any way that "effectively prohibits"