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Any power that exists will be abused, and a hyper risk-averse bureaucracy for whom there is no downside or resistance to using a system like that will only keep
by version_five 3y ago
Any power that exists will be abused, and a hyper risk-averse bureaucracy for whom there is no downside or resistance to using a system like that will only keep escalating. It's absurd that it can't be turned off.
- JohnFen 3y agoIn the US, Android lets you disable them (except for Presidential notifications). It even divides them up into broad categories, like Amber alerts, local alerts, etc., and you can pick and choose what categories you want or don't want to hear about.
- version_five 3y agoI'm in Canada, iirc I can toggle something on my phone that says "don't show alerts" but it does nothing, at least for various broad categories we can't turn it off. There are regular articles admonishing people for complaining about getting 3AM amber alerts from 100s of kilometers away, as if we should all be doing our part waking up and checking our house to see if the suspect and child are there.
- JohnFen 3y agoOh, that sucks. I wonder if there's an app that would suppress them?