• Trump administration will send a message to all US phones on Thursday
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-administration-emergency-alert-system-test-a8539871.html The Trump administration will send a message to all US mobile phones on Thursday, as it tests an unused alert system that warns the public about national emergencies. Phones will make a loud tone and have a special vibration according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which will send the alert. The test message will be headlined “Presidential Alert” and will go on to read “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” US mobile phone users will not be able to opt out of the test. Former US president Barack Obama signed a law in 2016 which required FEMA to design a system where the president could send mobile phone alerts in national emergencies.
Presidental Alert Help Im about to get impeache
Blocked
Presidential Alert send bobs and vangene
You're all fired.
Watch him use this to spam out "VOTE TRUMP" and other propaganda later on.
NO COLLUSION!
Jokes aside, emergency alerts are a good idea in a world where everyone has a phone these days. There have been times when the phone alerting me that i'm in a tornado warning was the only warning I had.
Sounds like a good system with the absolute WORST timing imaginable.
Joke's on him, the vibration motor in my phone died last week and I'm not replacing it because it's out of warranty and I can live without it
I know this is for national emergencies but I can't stop thinking he's going to get addicted to it and will have his twitter hooked into the system so he can shitpost literally everyone in the US on demand
That would instantly give him the lowest approval ratings in history, imagine sleeping at 2AM and your phone vibrates for a Trump tweet
I imagine receiving a text at 3am saying nothing but "NO COLLUSION"
If Trump loses in 2020 he will spend the lame duck period spamming all phones "FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUC"
"Phones will make a loud tone and have a special vibration according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)" Does Android and iOS have special functions specifically for this particular alert type?
it'll probably be similar if not the same as an amber alert right now.
Some random video I found, but if this is actually it people are gonna shit bricks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tTQFMcOxMM
Can't wait for the day its hacked and someone uses it to shitpost
Always cool sight when I was in college to see when there is an Amber alert or flood warning and literally everyone in food hall looks at their phone
Yep that's the sound you get for weather alerts like floods (as seen in the vid) and tornado warnings. I'm pretty sure its designed to startle the fuck out of you.
I'm curious if the presidential alert is different from the emergency alert. I remember an option listed under the developer options in the emergency alert settings that you can set it to show an opt out dialog after the first Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) alert. The only alert you can't opt out is the Presidential Alert.
They did a national EAN test in 2011. It is going to basically be the same thing but only with phones.
I literally just watched the new American Horror story season premiere where everyones phones are getting alerts with sirens about incoming missiles. COLLUSION?!
imagine if Trump used it every time he tweeted EMERGENCY ALERT This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy! EMERGENCY ALERT How can a dummy dope like Harry Hurt, who wrote a failed book about me but doesn’t know me or anything about me, be on TV discussing Trump? EMERGENCY ALERT To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS! EMERGENCY ALERT I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke. EMERGENCY ALERT Obama is, without question, the WORST EVER president. I predict he will now do something really bad and totally stupid to show manhood!
This would honestly be the best thing ever. Annoy the shit out of the people who actually buy his shit.
I have to say the emergency alert sound is downright haunting when you are asleep, the power dies, and moments later that sound spills forth from the depths of hades realm. I have never gone from half asleep to wide awake faster - I'll give it that.
I think the entire point of the emergency alert screech is to induce that effect to hammer home the whole "PAY ATTENTION, STUPID".
Trump is already going to shitpost.
We tested it here in Ontario(or maybe it was nationally?) a few months back and that's exactly what it's like. My phone was on Do Not Disturb I think so I didn't get the freaky sounds, but a bunch of people around me did.
My phone has some emergency alert settings. Warnings include; Disaster Alert, Amber Alerts, Presidential alerts, Local Alerts, and MISC alerts. Only Disasters and presidential alerts can't be turned off. It also lets you completely turn off the emergency alert noise, which seems to completely defeat the purpose.
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