Public emergency alert - being sent to your phone

[V1nce Fox]

GSE said:

Latest from the Ministry Of Information:





Someone's being paid to come up with this nonsense!

wkers.

[Getragdogleg]

Countdown said:

Getragdogleg said:

Sway said:

So all the fears of it's misuse were bull.

Good decision making at that time of the morning, no need to send out a retrospective alert for something over, etc.

Along with the lack of forecast alerts due to hot weather, it's a bad week for critics of the system.

Lets hope its always a bad week for critics of the system and the scope creep some of us are mindful of never happens, that way you get to be happy because you were right and those of us who suspect it could be used to warn us of pretty minor or unnecessary things are happy because its not being used to tell us about minor or unnecessary things.

Win win.

Lets come back in few years time and review this topic though, the scope creep rarely turns up straight away and we are in the early days.

IMHO that tends to be the "go to" option for most conspiracy theorists

"Ah yes, just because there's no evidence of the Guv'mint doing something evil NOW, doesn't mean that they won't do something evil in the future, and THEN you'll be sorry!!"

fks sake, there is no being reasonable about it with someone who wants an argument is there ?

Its not "evil" I'm wary of in this situation, its state creep nannying I'm cautious of but you want a conspiracy theory to debunk to make you feel better about your world view, I get it, your not having that argument with me though because I'm not what you want me to be.

[Countdown]

Given that you can opt out of “state creep nannying” what exactly are you “cautious “ of?

[mac96]

GSE said:

Latest from the Ministry Of Information:





Someone's being paid to come up with this nonsense!

Perhaps it's just me, but that looks as though the writer thought 'arrive' rhymed with 'give'.

[Getragdogleg]

Countdown said:

Given that you can opt out of “state creep nannying” what exactly are you “cautious “ of?

Yawn.

Don't worry about it.

[Vipers]

On the news earlier, July 20 caught end of a mention of a lioness loose in Berlin, so they sent out an emergency alert to stay indoors, so came in handy then.

https://news.sky.com/story/suspected-lioness-on-th...

[madbadger]

If I got an alert saying there was a lion wandering about I would definitely think someone was taking the piss and ignore it.

[normalbloke]

EmailAddress said:

madbadger said:

If I got an alert saying there was a lion wandering about I would definitely think someone was taking the piss and ignore it.

I'd also be out in the car having a look!

Serious stuff, happened around here recently….

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/22/whit...

[Vipers]

Another one on the loose and no bloody warning.