The video is a very short news item about FEMA testing the emergency alert system this week, but that’s not what I thought people would enjoy. It’s the comments - people are going batshit insane with every conspiracy theory you can think of (and more that you never would).
They are finally activating the 5G chips!
I can feel my vaccine vibrating inside of me!
Oh jeez you weren’t kidding. Poeple are acting like the government just scheduled a nuclear Holocaust for Wednesday.
Exactly. My wife is the one who ran into them and started reading them to me. They just go on and on with one crazy take after another.
Okay I understand why some people might feel paranoid that this in preparation for some potentially imminent attack… but can someone explain to me why so many of these people are so worried about the message itself being pushed to their phone? Like they’re talking about draining their batteries to avoid it—but like, why though?
Yeah, that’s what got me. I mean, it’s about as close as you can get to the literal tinfoil hat thing (wearing tinfoil on your head to stop the government or aliens or whatever from beaming into your brain.
I suppose there is fear of it being abused (think 1984 telescreens you’re unable to turn off)? There was a test recently here in the UK and we had the same fears discussed. The noise was pretty awful so I just turned it off, but maybe people don’t realise you can disable it.
They are all talking about emptying their batteries, lets not tell them there’s an option in settings.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-turn-emergency-alerts-your-26755170
- That’s the UK
- While you can turn off some emergency alerts, I don’t believe you can turn off the national emergency alert in the US.
It sounds like it: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea
Airplaine mode is also working.
I turned that shit off, my provincial gov’t uses it like their personal Xitter account.
Please change the title of this post to match the title of the video. I’ll have to remove it for violating rule 4 it if isn’t changed.
Okay, done. I hadn’t realized when posting that this is one of the communities where you have to use the source title. I’m this case it’s frustrating because I really wanted to talk about the comments more than the video, but the body text will have to do. Thanks for the warning and time to fix it.
If you want to make a comment about the discourse there, I’ll pin it for you. Just let me know.
It’s fine, I think, but thank you for the offer. People seem to be discussing the comment section mostly, which is what I was looking for
At&t has been sending me nonstop alerts for the last 2 months and I’m getting fuckin pissed.
Got like 10 today alone.
FUCK OFF I DONT CARE ABOUT TEST ALERTS
Just turn them off in the settings then
Oh trust me I tried. They still keep coming.
But it seems that test alerts directly from AT&T are unaffected.
Rule violation on title.
There are rules?
There are rules, but they are only as effective as their enforcement
We enforce, but reports help.
Just doin my part 😘
Oh, shit, is this one of the communities where the title can’t be changed from the source?
Read the rules lol
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Okay don’t see anything that says people will go insane.
I’m saying the people in the comments have already gone insane (did you read the body text?).
I saw no comments on that video at time I watched it.
