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Starting January 20, Donald Trump Can Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages to the Entire Nation
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Nov 30, 2016 05:22pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Jake Swearingen |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 04:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | While it’d be a true nightmare to get screeching alerts from your phone that “Loser Senate Democrats still won’t confirm great man Peter Thiel to Supreme Court. Sad!”, there are some checks and balances on this. While President-elect Trump hasn’t shown much impulse control when it comes to his favorite mass-messaging service, Twitter, the process for issuing a WEA isn’t as simple as typing out a 90-character alert from a presidential smartphone and hitting “Send.”
All WEAs must be issued through FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System, meaning that an emergency alert from the president still has at least one layer to pass through before being issued. While FEMA is under control of the executive branch (the head of FEMA is selected by the president, and reports to the Department of Homeland Security), the agency would have a vested interest in not seeing their alert system bent toward, uh, non-emergency ends. |
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