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You’re using a utility and you must accept the terms to use that utility. There’s probably some verbiage in your carrier agreement about it. You can’t disable

You’re using a utility and you must accept the terms to use that utility. There’s probably some verbiage in your carrier agreement about it. You can’t disable 911/112 just because you don’t like it either.

Scoundreller 4y ago
9-1-1 doesn’t usually call me at odd hours though.
- withinboredom 4y ago
  Is that a thing? At least in this part of the EU, they never ever sound unless it’s a genuine emergency or the monthly test. I’m pretty sure the only reason they would go off is for a tsunami because they don’t even go off for tornados.
  - Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
    Apparently government alerts come though to americans at all times at full volume whenever a parent doesn't return a kid to the other one on time.
    - Scoundreller 4y ago
      I think in the US you can set it to a lower-than-highest level, but in Canada, they send the kid-in-a-custody-dispute ones at the nuclear incident level (which was also sent out by mistake once). Nothing sadder/funnier than seeing politicians defend their broken system as it increasingly did broken things.
matheusmoreira 4y ago
I don't care what the carrier agreement says. If they want to send me the warnings, fine. My phone is perfectly equipped to receive them and will happily display them should I choose to allow it. What's unacceptable to me is forcing my phone to do anything. It doesn't matter to me if there's some piece of paper saying I can't turn them off, I will turn them off and I will resist them if they try to force it on.
- withinboredom 4y ago
  I mean, you can try. At some point they may just kick you off the network. No shoes, no shirt, no service. IOW, providers have a right to tell you how and in which fashion you use the service. Just like you can’t walk into a 7/11 butt naked, you apparently can’t go into Germany without enrolling in emergency alerts that probably go off once every decade (not including tests).

Scoundreller 4y ago

9-1-1 doesn’t usually call me at odd hours though.

withinboredom 4y ago
Is that a thing? At least in this part of the EU, they never ever sound unless it’s a genuine emergency or the monthly test. I’m pretty sure the only reason they would go off is for a tsunami because they don’t even go off for tornados.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
  Apparently government alerts come though to americans at all times at full volume whenever a parent doesn't return a kid to the other one on time.
  - Scoundreller 4y ago
    I think in the US you can set it to a lower-than-highest level, but in Canada, they send the kid-in-a-custody-dispute ones at the nuclear incident level (which was also sent out by mistake once). Nothing sadder/funnier than seeing politicians defend their broken system as it increasingly did broken things.

matheusmoreira 4y ago

I don't care what the carrier agreement says. If they want to send me the warnings, fine. My phone is perfectly equipped to receive them and will happily display them should I choose to allow it. What's unacceptable to me is forcing my phone to do anything. It doesn't matter to me if there's some piece of paper saying I can't turn them off, I will turn them off and I will resist them if they try to force it on.

withinboredom 4y ago
I mean, you can try. At some point they may just kick you off the network. No shoes, no shirt, no service. IOW, providers have a right to tell you how and in which fashion you use the service. Just like you can’t walk into a 7/11 butt naked, you apparently can’t go into Germany without enrolling in emergency alerts that probably go off once every decade (not including tests).