{"id":18052,"date":"2020-02-01T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=18052"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:02:26","slug":"trail-man-stands-up-in-protest-against-emergent-5g-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=18052","title":{"rendered":"Trail man stands up in protest against emergent 5G technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Jan. 25 was \u201cGlobal 5G Protest Day\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\"><a class=\"byline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trailtimes.ca\/author\/sheri-regnier\/\" rel=\"author\">SHERI REGNIER<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Jan. 30, 2020 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18054\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rocky-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rocky-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rocky-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rocky-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rocky.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rocky Cotton made a stance against 5G technology in downtown Trail on Saturday as part of a Jan. 25 global protest.<\/p>\n<p>Called the 5th generation cellular technology, 5G is the next generation of mobile broadband that will eventually replace, or at least augment, 4G LTE connection.<\/p>\n<p>5G is touted as being exponentially faster for download and upload speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Latency, or the time it takes devices to communicate with wireless networks, will also drastically decrease. However, 5G is proving to be the most controversial generation yet as a growing number of people across the planet demand answers regarding the safety of the emerging technology.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of \u201cGlobal 5G Protest Day\u201d is to \u201cstop the deployment of millions of 5G antennas on Earth and 50,000 5G satellites in space, and to secure emergency high-level meetings with officials in governments and international governmental organizations including the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:newsroom@trailtimes.ca%E2%80%9D target=\"><br \/>\nnewsroom@trailtimes.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trailtimes.ca\/news\/protesting-emergent-5g-technology\/\">https:\/\/www.trailtimes.ca\/news\/protesting-emergent-5g-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 25 was \u201cGlobal 5G Protest Day\u201d SHERI REGNIER\u00a0 \u00a0Jan. 30, 2020 1:30 a.m. Rocky Cotton made a stance against 5G technology in downtown Trail on Saturday as part of a Jan. 25 global protest. Called the 5th generation cellular technology, 5G is the next generation of mobile broadband that will eventually replace, or at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,357,17,716,770,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-5g-antenna","category-bc","category-stop5g","category-stop5ginternational-org","category-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18056,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052\/revisions\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}