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<p>NO!! But, I would not be opposed to some type of app on the boxes that support it, one that can be dismissed or controlled by the user.<br /> </p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Fri 03-08-2019 04:22 pm<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?<br /><strong>To:</strong> nanog@nanog.org; <br /><br />https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/index.html<br /><br />New York (CNN Business) The federal emergency alert program was designed <br />decades ago to interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn about <br />impending danger — from severe weather events to acts of war.<br /><br />But people watch TV and listen to radio differently today. If a person is <br />watching Netflix, listening to Spotify or playing a video game, for <br />example, they might miss a critical emergency alert altogether.<br /><br />"More and more people are opting out of the traditional television <br />services," said Gregory Touhill, a cybersecurity expert who served at the <br />Department of Homeland security and was the first-ever Federal Chief <br />Information Security Officer. "There's a huge population out there that <br />needs to help us rethink how we do this."<br /><br />[...]<br /></blockquote>
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