Trump Considers Nationalizing 5G Network, Allegedly

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 29, 2018

I would suspect that he isn’t actually considering doing this, but is leaking that he is considering doing this in order to start a conversation.

Axios:

Trump national security officials are considering an unprecedented federal takeover of a portion of the nation’s mobile network to guard against China, according to sensitive documents obtained by Axios.

Why it matters: We’ve got our hands on a PowerPoint deck and a memo — both produced by a senior National Security Council official — which were presented recently to senior officials at other agencies in the Trump administration.

The main points: The documents say America needs a centralized nationwide 5G network within three years. There’ll be a fierce debate inside the Trump administration — and an outcry from the industry — over the next 6-8 months over how such a network is built and paid for.

Two options laid out by the documents:

1. The U.S. government pays for and builds the single network — which would be an unprecedented nationalization of a historically private infrastructure.

2. An alternative plan where wireless providers build their own 5G networks that compete with one another — though the document says the downside is it could take longer and cost more. It argues that one of the “pros” of that plan is that it would cause “less commercial disruption” to the wireless industry than the government building a network.

Nationalization of infrastructure is such an extreme suggestion that it is bound to create a big stir about the current state of the tech industry, which is pretty much completely and totally unregulated by the government.

The one regulation that existed (Net Neutrality) was designed exclusively to force Comcast to give unlimited free bandwidth to Netflix. Trump killed that and now he is going to move into a situation where a public-private partnership expands and secures infrastructure.

This doesn’t directly affect the situation of the Daily Stormer having its domain stolen, or other censorship problems that the Alt-Right is currently dealing with at the hands of the brutal and oppressive tech monopolies, but it gets closer to that issue.

At this point, the tech companies have been so irresponsible – not just with censorship, but with spying and a whole bushel of other very serious offenses – that I would support just nationalizing the entire industry, regardless of the economic chaos it would cause. However, China currently has a workable model of public-private partnerships for crucial infrastructure which I believe we can copy off of.

Our economy has completely failed to modernize, due to corruption. There are very simple solutions which exist.