iPhone to include "presidential alerts" you can't turn off

[Elias Graves]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...t-you-cant-switch-off/?utm_source=twitterfeed

AT&T has begun rolling out Wireless Emergency Alerts updates for iPhone 4S and 5, so you won’t be the last folks to know if the entire northern hemisphere is about to be covered in ice à la Day After Tomorrow.


You’ll receive a notification from the carrier when your update is ready, but only if you’re using iOS 6.1 or higher.


Once installed, AMBER and Emergency alerts are automatically sent to your phone unless you switch them off via Settings. However, should you be tired of Obama, just know that there’s no way to switch off Presidential alerts.

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As much as I dig my iPhone, this may drive me to a different phone. I don't want to hear anything that guy has to say.

 

[ghengis86]

I find this slightly less offensive that they can track, listen to and take video of you secretly. Slightly.

 

[JK/SEA]

resistance is futile. You will be absorbed. Sooner or later.

 

[Pericles]

No iPhone = no issue

I vote with my wallet.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

This is bullshit.

Propaganda from the president straight to people's phones... what a load of crap.

 

[Neil Desmond]

The Orwellian telescreen has finally arrived.

 

[Elias Graves]

I expect to receive a message to be on the lookout for myself.

 

[kahless]

 

[Seraphim]

This. Don't buy an Iphone.

Buy it and bitch about = you empower the measure.

Don't buy it and keep your mouth shut = their bottom line suffers and they must respond.

No iPhone = no issue

I vote with my wallet.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I find this slightly less offensive that they can track, listen to and take video of you secretly. Slightly.

I find it rather pompous, if that's even the right word. It's invasive in the sense that it forces you to accept the idea that everything Obama has to say is important. At least spying on you doesn't make that assumption. The point where we start having Obama Alerts is the point where I start to realize just how much the state expects us to worship the president. He's like Fearless Leader who wants to be on every TV screen, every radio at all times so that he can remind the people just how much they need him and appreciate him. To me, this is no less absurd than spying on us because it gives you no option to just not give a fuck... at least, that is if you have an iPhone, which I don't.

 

[69360]

Don't have an iphone and never will.

Somebody will come up with a jailbreak from the obama alerts.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

resistance is futile. You will be absorbed assimilated. Sooner or later.

FIFY. I just like that word better.

 

[Sola_Fide]

Wonder what will change if Rand is president. ..

 

[muh_roads]

jailbreak your phone and you won't have to worry.

Android had presidential alerts awhile ago...just root it.

 

[cajuncocoa]

WTF is a "presidential alert"?

 

[tod evans]

WTF is a "presidential alert"?

Who cares?

 

[cajuncocoa]

I don't care​, just curious.

 

[TruckinMike]

passé

PROGRESSIVE

 

[Neil Desmond]

WTF is a "presidential alert"?

Something issued by the Ministry of Truth...you know, a beautiful thing (the destruction of words), newspeak, doublethink; stuff like: we were never at war with Eurasia, we've always been at war with Eastasia; chocolate rations were going to be decreased but they were actually increased; Yes I inhaled-that was the point.

 

[Restore America Now]

If it's just AT&T, simply use a different carrier.