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To: meadsjn

Interesting that you are posting that info about the alert system.

Some time ago, I blocked the Amber Alert because it was going off so much. I live on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in a semi-rural area, but I am close enough, as the crow flies, to Baltimore and DC that the alarm was going off quite frequently.

Last night, I got an Amber Alert on my cell phone. Very, very loud. Startled the bejaysus out of me. A display window popped up. In addition to the actual alert message, there was a “settings” option, which allowed me to once again disable the Amber Alert system.

However, there were 3 other alert categories listed. At the top was something like “Presidential Alert/Message”, The other 2 were something like “Extreme Weather” and “Extreme Danger”. (Not sure if I have the exact title of any of these 3.) Anyway, the notation for the presidential alert informed my that it could not be disabled.

Granted, I am not at all technically informed and not really up on alert systems, but I do not remember ever seeing anything about any sort presidential warning system before. Ah, but I do remember that Q mentioned many, many months ago something about enabling the Emergency Broadcast System.

Maybe someone who is more tech savvy than this old granny could enlighten me....


1,325 posted on 07/11/2018 8:01:11 AM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: Bigg Red
Maybe someone who is more tech savvy than this old granny could enlighten me....

Sounds to me like you are already enlightened in this respect.

" the notation for the presidential alert informed my that it could not be disabled."

1,332 posted on 07/11/2018 8:20:16 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Bigg Red

I have those alerts on my Note 7 and disabled all except the Presidential Alert, which, as you can see, is not able to be disabled. I got the phone during the sick, mom jean wearing, can’t throw a baseball, POS, Obamination’s regime and I was ticked off the whole time thinking he had access to my phone. Now, I am quite happy to hear from my POTUS DJT if he wishes, but I believe all 3 alerts come in “enabled” mode on new phones. My understanding is that the alerts first appeared under the sick, mom jean wearing, can’t throw a baseball, POS, Obamination’s regime so he could alert us to the fact that we didn’t build that.


1,412 posted on 07/11/2018 11:39:31 AM PDT by TheTexasMom (Over and Out.)
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