Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Sat Mar 9 16:19:51 UTC 2019

I think the point is they should have built a 
system that doesn't need to be blocked - it 
should always effectively and appropriately 
deliver timely and relevant alert messages.

As taxpayers and citizens, we deserve better.

At 11:32 PM 08/03/2019, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
>It can be blocked, FYI.Â  Just... not as easily 
>as it should be. On Android, if you remove the 
>CellBroadcastReceiver service, the phone no longer listens for the alerts.
>
>I rooted my phone specifically to be able to do 
>this after the alerting system rolled out in 
>Canada.Â  The test was bad enough, then within 
>the first week we had several alerts for a 
>single event that happened literally an entire day's drive away from me.
>
>And thus, in the first week the system was 
>alive, alarm fatigue set in, the government 
>confirmed that it cannot be trusted, and I 
>revoked their privilege to use my personal devices for stuff I don't want.
>
>
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