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Yet again, the difference between conspiracy theory and reality is 6-12 months.

At this point we can assume that anything technologically feasible for surveillance is implemented or pending implementation. There were some suggestions that the push for 5G comes from the desire to improve location tracking which is much better on 5G.

This has been the conclusion I've been dragged kicking and screaming to over the last couple of years myself.

- If it's not FOSS it's spyware

- If it's got a camera it's probably going to a datacenter to run facial recognition and/or ALPR or similar

- If it requires a login they are modeling your behavior

Wear a mask and/or hat and sunglasses when outside

Don't drive

Don't carry a cell phone (if you're worried about emergencies, HAM licenses and 2M radios are cheap.)

Don't use non-free software

Don't use hosted centralized technology from Facebook and Google or similar.

I posted ~8 months ago (albeit on an anonymous forum) that those really stupid 5g conspiracy theories might be a coverup for the privacy implications of 5g (my meta conspiracy theory if you will.)

Create a conspiracy so out-landish it out-competes the legitimate concerns for attention and burns out people’s patience for listening. There must be multiple PR firms that have this strategy down pat, is there a name for it yet?

I might nominate Conspiracy-washing, or maybe conspiracy-flooding, drowning out the rational voices.

I think I'll just leave my phone home from now on. Call me leave a message and I'll get back to you after work.

It isn't even really a theory anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIgi7KPl6tw

Uhm the 5G conspiracy theory is that it causes Covid. Not that the higher frequencies and smaller cell sizes allow better phone localisation, which is obvious and not a conspiracy theory.

On a long enough time frame, Alex Jones is always right.

That he is a 'performance artist playing a character'

Nailed it

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