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Old 10-03-2018, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Florida
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^^ I just got it, too.

Screenshot. Top one.
Hmmm....I have been receiving weather alerts and Amber Alerts for years. So, now they are re-named "Presidential Alerts"? Why?
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Old 10-03-2018, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Coastal San Diego
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Yes you can, typically. If you have an Iphone, you can go to settings, then notifications, then "government alerts" at the very bottom of the screen.

Those are: Amber Alerts, and "Emergency Alerts". Both on my phone are turned off, and yet the Presidential Alert gets through.

Before today, I was able to opt out of the emergency alert system.
Let's hope this is fixed in iOS 12.1
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:00 PM
 
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Now he can bypass Twitter and go right for my cell phone.
After the next bombshell news from libbies , he ll say "No Collusion" through this system .
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Huntsville, AL
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You libs better find your safe space from this tyranny!!
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:00 PM
 
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Hmmm....I have been receiving weather alerts and Amber Alerts for years. So, now they are re-named "Presidential Alerts"? Why?
They are not. Those alerts are localized. This is a NATIONAL alert. Everyone in the country that has a cell phone turned on and close enough to a tower gets the alert.
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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That idiot really is cold calling people with text alerts?

Wow. That man is as clueless and tone deaf as any human being I've ever seen.

No wonder his supporters only pledge their allegiance anonymously on the internet.
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Why would one not want the alert? Say, you are driving listening to music that does not have live broadcasting and there is some sort of emergency. I would think everyone would want to be alerted. In reality, this is not about Trump.
In the wee tiny brain of libra-tards everything is about Trump, he lives in there head 24/7.
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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Hmmm....I have been receiving weather alerts and Amber Alerts for years. So, now they are re-named "Presidential Alerts"? Why?
Because Trump sent it. Back when this was envisioned, they had the now wistful notion of a trusted and competent president coming before the public to warn of an unfolding emergency - like in the movies. Now it seems to most of us more like an offensive intrusion by an incompetent, vile man into our lives.
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:05 PM
 
Location: Surprise, AZ
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It came on the tv as well. We need to watch out. Trump may very well be the Antichrist.
Uh...that would be Kamala Harris.
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Old 10-03-2018, 01:05 PM
 
Location: Florida
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They are not. Those alerts are localized. This is a NATIONAL alert. Everyone in the country that has a cell phone turned on and close enough to a tower gets the alert.
Nation wide rip-currents.....interesting, but I guess it is worthy of an Orange Alert.

I don't need this kind of government intrusion in my life

I can imagine what I-95 looks like when people are driving 70mph and suddenly everyone checks their cell phones at the same time. Carnage.
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