Emergency alert

[Screwdriver]

"The UK government is scheduled to conduct a nationwide test of its Emergency Alerts system on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at 3:00 PM BST."

For those concerned about personal autonomy and individual freedoms, you can disable this nonsense by going into settings, notifications, scroll all the way to the bottom.

Appears to be innocuous, helpful even but this is only the thin end of the wedge. If the majority in a herd of wildebeest can be steered in a given direction, all the others suddenly realise they have no choice.

 

[roofman]

"The UK government is scheduled to conduct a nationwide test of its Emergency Alerts system on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at 3:00 PM BST."

For those concerned about personal autonomy and individual freedoms, you can disable this nonsense by going into settings, notifications, scroll all the way to the bottom.

Appears to be innocuous, helpful even but this is only the thin end of the wedge. If the majority in a herd of wildebeest can be steered in a given direction, all the others suddenly realise they have no choice.

They know we can...it was carried out 5 years ago with great success

 

[Kram]

How long until somone manages to hack it saying "national shortage of bogroll and petrol, please do not buy any more than nessasary".

It would bring the county to a halt

 

[brightspark]

or max headroom again

 

[roofman]

How long until somone manages to hack it saying "national shortage of bogroll and petrol, please do not buy any more than nessasary".

It would bring the county to a halt

next time i am using old pillow cases and an Ebike

 

[harveyp6]

Is this going to come through on my 20 year old 2G Nokia?
I doubt it.
I couldn't care less.

 

[Screwdriver]

I couldn't care less.

That is exactly how it works...

 

[MattF]

If the majority in a herd of wildebeest can be steered in a given direction, all the others suddenly realise they have no choice.

There's always choice.

 

[addjunkie]

The off button works well!

 

[Gareth J]

Oh, please. It's not a threat to anything. A passive alert you can, as you so articulately pointed out, turn off.

Turn it off and get on with your life, leave it on and ignore it, no one will notice or care.

 

[Screwdriver]

There's always choice.

The illusion of choice yes...

 

[Screwdriver]

Oh, please. It's not a threat to anything. A passive alert you can, as you so articulately pointed out, turn off.

Turn it off and get on with your life, leave it on and ignore it, no one will notice or care.

That is why I refer to this type of authoritarian muscle flex as "the thin end".

CBDC and mandatory national digital identity next...