What's the FCC and What Do They Do?
It's not what you think
Why don’t you know more about the dangers of cell phones and wireless radiation?
If it’s so bad for us, why aren’t there laws?
Enter the FCC.
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That’s right, an attorney for the wireless companies is now the head of the FCC.
The previous head of the FCC was both a previous CEO of a wireless company and the previous head of the CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade association, for over 12 years.
This is like hiring the CEO of Monsanto to be the head of the EPA to regulate Roundup (Monsanto makes roundup, aka glyphosate, which has recently been shown to cause cancer).
This seems totally crazy and yet welcome to the FCC.
FCC is the Federal Communications Commission.
There are only 5 total people who are part of the FCC, called commissioners.
2 of those commissioners are lawyers, and one of them, who was an industry lawyer is the head of the entire FCC.
The FCC is a government agency. As such, it was somehow allowed to take away the power to study the safety of wireless and the power to regulate wireless radiation from the EPA.
So now they FCC regulates wireless safety and not the EPA.
Of the 5 people that make up the FCC none of them is a doctor or scientist. They’re lawyers running the show, and they are already making laws at the federal level to ensure we cannot stop the rollout of the new 5G technology, regardless of how it harms humans or the environment.
This is bad news.
“The wireless communications industry is rushing to blanket the nation with next-generation networks whose health effects are unknown
Despite studies linking radiation from existing networks to cancer in lab animals, the Federal Communications Commission and state legislators are bowing to industry lobbyists and clearing the way for the new networks.
The FCC recently voted to exclude base stations for new 5G wireless networks from review under federal environmental and historic preservation laws. Meanwhile, almost two dozen states have passed laws, pushed by wireless lobby groups, to override local ordinances that would regulate the siting of these new base stations, which could be installed on nearly every telephone pole in the U.S.
Other states are considering similar legislation.
the FCC said this could mean nearly a million installations of the new technology.
On March 22, the FCC voted to exclude installations of 5G equipment from the National Environmental Protection Act and the National Historic Preservation Act. These laws require federal agencies to evaluate and minimize the impact of new development on the environment and historic properties.
But the FCC’s action does not exempt installation of the base stations from state and local and regulations. To clear these hurdles, the two main wireless lobbying groups – the Wireless Infrastructure Association and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association – have developed and promoted model legislation overriding such regulations to state legislatures.”
https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2018/07/despite-health-concerns-fcc-and-states-clear-way-next-generation-wireless
in addition, the FCC put in place the 1996 Telecommunications act which states local governments cannot cite health concerns about the effects of tower radiation to deny tower licenses so long as the towers comply with FCC regulations (Section 332(c)(7)(B)(iv).
P.S. Is your cell phone tracking you? Does it manipulate your emotions? Is it done on purpose? We’ll tell you tomorrow.
Homework:
Read THIS article by Harvard describing why allowing the wireless industry to regulate itself is a really bad idea.