Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

[Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d () alter3d ca>]

Most civilized societies immensely value a great many things, and for 
exactly zero of them is it acceptable for the government to kick down my 
door, wake me up, and scrawl a message on my wall to make sure I hear 
about it.  Just because digital tools can save the government millions 
of man-hours because they no longer have to go house-to-house doesn't 
justify the theft and use of my personal property against my wishes.


On 2021-01-04 3:56 a.m., Krassimir Tzvetanov wrote:
> Also a PSA: Amber alerts, Emergency alerts, and Public Safety alerts 
> all go over cell broadcast. Think of it as a broadcast message on a 
> LAN where the LAN is the local mobile phone cell. The reason you get 
> that message 600 miles away for an amber alert is because in most 
> civilized societies children's lives are immensely valued. And a 5-6 
> hour driving distance is not much knowing the lifecycle of reporting 
> of such things and activation of the system, and also the time it 
> takes for some of those kidnappings to be discovered before it can 
> even be reported.