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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142159862

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The wireless emergency alert test was set to go out Thursday before FEMA announced it will be pushed back to Oct. 3

Plenty of Americans aren't terribly keen to be receiving text messages from the president, even in an emergency.

And they'll have a reprieve, if only briefly.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the wireless emergency alert (WEA) system, announced that the test that had been scheduled for Thursday will be pushed back to Oct. 3, citing the "ongoing response efforts to Hurricane Florence."

The initial announcement was met with concerns from social media users who stated that a direct message from President Donald Trump to the nation could be used for political purposes, similar to how he uses his official Twitter page.

One online user responded to FEMA's announcement via Twitter, saying, "We don’t need presidential alerts! We already have public emergency alert messaging. This is not necessary!"..

"This POTUS is so bad that folks are prepared to forgo the potential benefits of a national alert system - which already exists on radio and TV - because it is hard to believe Trump will not abuse it."..

full article at https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mobile/fema...connect-n910406

One of the informative posts provides useful info and a guess of why it might be hard to abuse (we know who will try) the system that became law in 2015 since it was considered a valid tool at the time. It needs to be changed to something better than the current setup.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2159890

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Your cell carrier would have to be one that even participates and your phone would need to have the technology in it to even receive the message. The carrier would receive the message from some originator (NWS, local Emergency Management, obviously the "President" ) and would blast it out to the devices on their networks. In many areas, you can also sign up to receive these alerts via email (like the "Ready.gov" municipal participants). The message would also go to broadcast sources like radio stations and television.

https://images.slideplayer.com/42/11349067/slides/slide_6.jpg

The issue that I would agree with however, is the current occupant of the WH and what the message content would be but since it appears that in order for originators to use the system, they would have to login to a special application to create and then send the message, this is too much for the 3-year old to handle and obviously someone else would do it (he can't really do it from his own phone).

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