Put this on your calendar: next Thursday, September 20th, at 11:18 AM PDT, there will be the first nationwide "Presidential Alert" cell phone test. You can't silence these. Plan accordingly.
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both stock android and ios have settings to disable government and amber alerts, but there's no way to disable presidential alerts on any phone and it's illegal to do so
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This is why OS/software should not come with/from device vendors but be FOSS outside of regulatory control.
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i'm not sure i understand- i love open source too, but unblockable emergency communications have existed for decades and the presidential alert system is simply the most modern version of this. it's not really about open vs closed code
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if they want unblockable alert system why don't they just put usual sirens in the city
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Because half the people that hear a siren keep on trucking. The other half go outside to see what might be happening. Text can provide a lot more info than a siren.
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Of course emergency communication channels are useful. Enforcing that government or any party have access to push them through your device with no way to turn them off is not so nice, especially under an administration with no respect for unwritten or even written norms.
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Which administration? Because those have been around for a while.
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"This" obviously means the current one. How long the infrastructure has been around or who created it is not the point. The point is that we currently have a ruler with no respect for norms or intended purpose of emergency channels who'd happily use it for fascist purposes.
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