Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Fri Mar 8 22:39:51 UTC 2019


On 3/8/19 2:32 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
> 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.

I was there developing service provider voip from the beginning and I 
can tell you that we were never unaware that we needed to deal with 
regulatory requirements from the pstn. e911, calia and all the rest. It 
was never simple.

Mike


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>> 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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