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Spread of ‘rightwing conspiracies’ about Salisbury’s smart infrastructure scheme prompts councillors to pass extraordinary motion
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A South Australian council has been forced to reassure its residents that Elon Musk is not attaching mind-control microchips to their brains, and that it is not installing killer 5G towers.
Salisbury city council has been targeted by people spreading a range of false claims about its smart infrastructure program, which uses a range of technologies to, for example, let council workers know when bins are full or tell residents if there is parking available.
“Council has not and will not [install] smart technology ‘on behalf of powerful globalist bankers that have infiltrated all councils’.”
“Council has not and will not … ‘rollout any agenda to create a new One World Government as part of the Great Reset’.”
“Council has not and will not support the rollout [of] any adverse elements referenced in the fictional novels, George Orwell’s 1984 or Animal Farm.”
“Council has not and will not support 5G towers to be used ‘to kill or maim people’.”
“Council confirms that it is not aware of ‘a microchip that Elon Musk has produced which he has inserted or is in the process of inserting and/or attaching to residents’ brains to control the community’.”
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