Our democracies, for those of us favoured by fortune to live in the Nations of Virtue, are already Public-Private-Partnerships. Private money buys public servants, who ensure that the interests of their moneyed patrons are looked after. This is commonly known as "rule of law."
The private (although always heavily subsidized by the public purse) tech giants and telecoms are partners with government in all manner of mass surveillance and data harvesting projects.
It's the 3P governments and their billionaire handlers who are clamouring for 5G internet. For regular folks, 5G is gonna let you download Netflix way quicker. So instead of twenty seconds gone from your life that you'll never get back, it's only gonna be two seconds.
I'm not saying that's nothing, but it wouldn't merit spending trillions on global 5G infrastructure. And while I'm sure there's some legit rocket scientists and nuclear physicists who will use 5G to invent new kinds of math, they're not the intended beneficiaries of the new wave either.
No, the push for 5G is coming from the other two Ps in that 3P partnership. The private side naturally wants to know everything about everybody all the time. That's called "data," which happens to be the coin of the realm these days.
With 5G, they really will know everything about everybody all the time!
And guess who else would like to know everything about everybody all the time? The "public" part of your 3P; your government.
Just today we're treated to a news story about how Google and Apple are working with governments to make real-time tracking of cellphones a reality. For your own good of course, because that's how we can do contact tracing of anyone who might have COVID.
That could be anybody! With 5G, that won't be a problem, because then they really will be able to track everyone in real time. Not only that, there'll be cloud archives of where everyone has ever been from now until the end of time!
I don't see any real need for this technology from the perspective of a regular citizen. I'm a little disturbed by how reports of 5G radiation causing brain tumours in lab rats are routinely discounted by our media, but you have to remember, our media belong to the very billionaire class that wants this stuff in the first place, so no surprise there.
In our Western democracies, the only real discussion around 5G is whether Huawei should be part of it. They're the Chinese outfit that's given the Chinese government world-leading capabilities for spying on all their citizens all the time.
That's the one thing the leaders of our democracies really envy about the Chinese Communist Party.
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