<story><title>Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/bay-area-city-blocks-5g-deployments-over-cancer-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Asparagirl</author><text>I live in a part of unincorporated Marin county (Tamalpais Valley) that has a Mill Valley postal address, and the discussion about this issue on our local NextDoor was BANANAS. You could satirize this situation any way you like and it wouldn’t come close to how terrible and anti-science the comments were.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, I don’t even have cellphone service of any kind at my own house, not even 3G&amp;#x2F;4G, thanks to a combination of hills and NIMBYism about more towers. My family has to rely on a combination of a microcell and WiFi calling. It’s infuriating.&lt;p&gt;Actual discussion:&lt;p&gt;Guy: Come to this meeting or else they might put a 5G cell on a telephone pole right outside your house!&lt;p&gt;Me: OMG that would be amazing, yes please!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robterrell</author><text>I live downtown. Let&amp;#x27;s coordinate on getting this nonsense overturned. There&amp;#x27;s enough geeks in the community to get this done!</text></comment>
<story><title>Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/bay-area-city-blocks-5g-deployments-over-cancer-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Asparagirl</author><text>I live in a part of unincorporated Marin county (Tamalpais Valley) that has a Mill Valley postal address, and the discussion about this issue on our local NextDoor was BANANAS. You could satirize this situation any way you like and it wouldn’t come close to how terrible and anti-science the comments were.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, I don’t even have cellphone service of any kind at my own house, not even 3G&amp;#x2F;4G, thanks to a combination of hills and NIMBYism about more towers. My family has to rely on a combination of a microcell and WiFi calling. It’s infuriating.&lt;p&gt;Actual discussion:&lt;p&gt;Guy: Come to this meeting or else they might put a 5G cell on a telephone pole right outside your house!&lt;p&gt;Me: OMG that would be amazing, yes please!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>photos_victim</author><text>If it makes you feel better, the discussion of 5G on Nextdoor in Oakland was and remains bonkers. It’s not Marin, it’s people of a certain age. There just happens to be more of them in Marin.</text></comment>