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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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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Imagine if there were some sort of major terrorist attack by (or even rumored to be by) a member of any group he wants to scapegoat. Would you trust that he wouldn't use direct-to-public emergecy communication channels to fuel hate and support for internment and genocide?
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if that starts happening, it would be pretty bad and we'd need to address that, but he hasn't used any other emergency communications systems to spread hate. the phone notification system hasn't been used once in the years it's been around, and the presidential alert system (1/2)
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(2/2) for radio and television hasn't been used since it was established in the fifties. the administration sending propaganda directly to every mobile phone in the us is a pretty dystopian picture, but right now non-emergency media is doing more than enough to spread his message
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Right. I'm thinking of a situation where he's under increasing pressure, maybe indicted or impeached but refusing to recognize it, a lot of non-emergency media (e.g. Twitter, cable news) has cut off his direct lines to public, etc.
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I believe WEA is still optional, so carriers could stop carrying alerts if they notified the public that they were opting out. EAS is mandatory though, and there's no limit on EAN message length.
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Not to mention the nefarious opportunities available with things like utf decoding bugs
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