U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

Wed Oct 4 23:35:55 UTC 2023

>
> This
> whole test was a display of poor engineering and disrespect for people's
> first amendment rights.
>

You are certainly free to criticize the  system or the implementation, but
nothing about this is a First Amendment issue. Just don't.

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 7:16 PM Sabri Berisha <sabri at cluecentral.net> wrote:

> ----- On Oct 4, 2023, at 1:02 PM, Chris Adams cma at cmadams.net wrote:
>
> > Once upon a time, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> said:
> >> I don't know if today's test is the same thing or not, but I
> >> remember in the last X years where there was a presidential test of
> >> the EAS and there was supposedly no way to disable it short of
> >> turning your device off.
> >
> > IIRC it is mandated that the vendors don't allow you to turn off the
> > Presidential Alert class.
>
> If this is true, and I will take your word for it, that is outrageous.
>
> My wife is a teacher who works with special needs kids, and her phone
> went of twice (the second time 15 minutes after the first). This was
> very disruptive as you can imagine.
>
> Obviously, I made sure all of the emergency notifications were set to
> OFF on her phone. If setting this nonsense to OFF is not working, why
> even have the menu option?
>
> The government has no right to disrupt the day of 350 million people,
> however much the self-appointed emergency communication "professionals"
> like to think so.
>
> Furthermore, it's simply unnecessary. It is incredibly easy to add a
> one-bit flag indicating whether or not it's a test to such alerts. This
> whole test was a display of poor engineering and disrespect for people's
> first amendment rights.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sabri
>
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