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Helpless in the face of technology's threat to their way of life, a small British farmer wrote a series of letters signed under the pseudonym Captain Swing . The epistles, added to a general climate of social discontent, were the starting gun for modern Luddism , which caused the destruction of thousands of factories, workshops and looms.

Almost 200 years later, with England confined to their homes by the Coronavirus pandemic, Luddism has re-emerged in the United Kingdom. The saboteurs , sheltered in the dark of night, carry out coordinated attacks against telecommunication antennas for fear of 5G technology .

In the span of a week, at least 7 telephone antennas have been charred in different parts of the country and even up to 4 simultaneous sabotages have occurred over a single night, according to sources from Vodafone to the specialized media The Verge .

These coordinated attacks against strategic infrastructures are causing problems on mobile lines in different parts of the country , leaving residents in large city neighborhoods such as Birgminham without telephone coverage.

Attacks on employees

This sabotage is also adding to a proliferation of cases in which citizens record, reprimand and reprimand employees of telephone companies that install fiber optic cables for the deployment of 5G.

"They are pulling [5G] cable. Do they know that that kills people? Do they know that when they turn this on they are going to kill everyone? That is why they are building hospitals."

This is how a woman, mobile with a camera in hand, addresses two astonished operators who are installing fiber optics underground in a video that has been broadcast through social networks and has more than 2.5 million views .

The level of concern is such that it has pushed leading UK telecommunications companies to issue a joint statement. They claim that there have been attacks against engineers and, in some cases, citizens " have managed to prevent essential maintenance tasks from being carried out on the networks, " the note said.

This is the conspiracy of Coronavirus and 5G

The breeding ground on which this type of behavior emerges comes from YouTube and social networks, where thousands of conspiracy theorists take a chair on the matter in different videos, many of them with a marked alarmist and yellowish character.

In general, these conspiracy theories - which have hundreds of ramifications depending on who is the emitter - point out that 5G networks act as a kind of catalyst, which amplifies and makes the Coronavirus pathogen more lethal.

They also argue that the world's cities with the highest deployment of 5G technology are those in which this pandemic originating in Wuhan has had the greatest impact.

However, in some cases, these theories have come out of the scope of conspirology and have jumped into institutions. At the beginning of this year, the Barcelona City Council published an article that picked up the glove of this theory, entitled "5G is not safe" in which it was encouraged to join these conspiracy movements. An article that was removed from your website after the publication of this PIXEL article.

"The networks of our emergency services"

Faced with the escalation of tension, the British government has been forced to address the issue at press conferences that are held periodically to follow up on the Coronavirus crisis.

"The theory about 5G is real rubbish . It doesn't make any sense and it's the worst form of fake news. The reality is that mobile networks are absolutely critical to everyone. Especially at a time when we are asking people to he stays at home without seeing his friends and family. But, above all, it is the telephone networks that connect us with the emergency services and with health workers, "said a government spokesman.

Likewise, from the administration they emphasize that these acts of sabotage , far from protecting the health of the citizens as the conspiracy theorists think, pose an additional risk for the islands.

"I am shocked and disgusted that people are taking action against the same infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency ," he concluded.

YouTube hides the videos

Concern over these Luddite actions has also caused the UK Secretary of Culture, Oliver Dowden, to meet with the owners of social networks seeking to limit the dissemination of these messages .

Likewise, YouTube has announced that it has chosen to take action on the matter by limiting the dissemination of videos linking 5G networks to the coronavirus pandemic, despite not being prohibited by its own terms and conditions of use.

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