Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Fri Mar 8 22:32:52 UTC 2019

No. Please no. We need less regulation. Not more. 

VoIP started out the same way. Very simple to start offering voip. Worked well. Then the government got involved. Now it’s a mess of requirements, warnings and reporting. 

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 5:22 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/index.html
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> New York (CNN Business) The federal emergency alert program was designed decades ago to interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn about impending danger — from severe weather events to acts of war.
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> But people watch TV and listen to radio differently today. If a person is watching Netflix, listening to Spotify or playing a video game, for example, they might miss a critical emergency alert altogether.
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> "More and more people are opting out of the traditional television services," said Gregory Touhill, a cybersecurity expert who served at the Department of Homeland security and was the first-ever Federal Chief Information Security Officer. "There's a huge population out there that needs to help us rethink how we do this."
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