The EAS is based upon the War Powers Act provision of the Communications Act of 1934, which provides for Presidential access to commercial communications during “a state of public peril or disaster or other national emergency.” For WEA, the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act of 2006 provides that subscribers may opt out of receiving any wireless alerts “other than an alert issued by the President,” and that wireless alerting service should allow wireless subscribers the capability of opting out of receiving WEA alerts, other than an alert issued at the direction of the President and/or his/her designee.
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Wow you’re kind of a dick.
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Yeah, I got nothing as well. I did get two calls from scammers, though, one of whom left a short, screeching message. (I mean it was nothing but screeching noises, not that their voice was high pitched.)
I think in my case it may mean my cell carrier is crap. (Sometimes it takes an hour or more to get text messages. Or for phone calls to get through - i.e. I answer the phone and no one is there because they placed the call and failed to get through an hour earlier. Which can get spooky when I’m talking with someone face-to-face and the phone rings, and it’s them.)
Maybe they just want us to know that the president is alert. Unlike usual. That would be noteworthy.
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Yea, every now and then, usually after listening to the oh, great cheesy one, I go brain dead. Martial Law…
There was a consequence: if the kid didn’t turn off the phone the way the parent suggested, they would have been bothered by the very loud alert. Cause; effect.
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Part of his IEP is that he’s allowed to do quiet work with headphones and music to minimize distractions. Sooooooo that would have been extra annoying for him.
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Sure, nobody likes unsolicited parenting advice. But nobody likes having to train new young coworkers on how to act like human beings (including basic restroom etiquette), or deal with new neighbors in our community that think the “no littering” signs only apply to other people.
No one likes unsolicited advice, period; but especially when it’s not actually helpful. It just comes off as being needlessly pretentious.
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Okay IGN wins the internet today.
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I mentioned upthread I would try a method to not receive the text alert.
I did NOT go to Canada with my phone. I spoofed the GPS location to Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, courtesy of an app, and I shut off my phone from 14h04 EDT to 17h28 EDT. I did NOT receive a text alert.
My phone is a LG Aristo, acquired within the year. Another foreign national told me no alert came to their phone.
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Oh now I wonder if I’d set my VPN to Vancouver, Canada if that would have worked. Didn’t even occur to me.
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Well, duh. When the alert is sent out to round up the foreign nationals, you don’t want to tip them off.
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*gags
Thanks for that.
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A hurricane that suddenly (relatively speaking) veers from a course towards its expected landfall point to strike the coastline a state away, where people thought they were (again relatively speaking) safe.
A tornado spawning in a section of the country that doesn’t usually have tornado activity.
I understand that these don’t affect “everyone in the entire country.” But they could affect a large group of people and so could require a warning to be broadcast very widely, to an entire state or even an entire region. [A hurricane that was headed towards New Jersey but veered up towards Connecticut might require alerting New York and most or all of New England.]
If you’re going to need to potentially stress a large portion of the emergency alert system in an actual emergency, it makes sense to me to test it with an even more stressful message when there isn’t an actual emergency. What’s more stressful to the system than trying to simultaneously have every cell tower in the US broadcast this message to just about every cell phone?
Most of the people defending this appear to be completely ignoring the nature of the people controlling the federal government.
There are a lot of things that are defensible when a normal government does them, yet dangerous when a fascist government does them.
Context matters.
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Yup, context does matter. Because the current administration is far more likely to abuse such a broadcast system than an administration that respects and abides by the rule of law.
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I think this is a bit hyperbolic. This isn’t much different than an amber alert. This wasn’t a tweet directly by the Tangerine hitler, it was an expansion of emergency alert system.
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