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Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com)
President-elect Donald Trump will have access to a system which can send unblockable texts to every phone in the United States once he becomes the president. From a report on NYMag: These 90-character messages, known as Wireless Emergency Alerts (or WEAs), are part of a program put in place after Congress passed the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act, in 2006. WEAs allow for targeted messages to be sent to every cell phone getting a signal from certain geographically relevant cell towers (or, in a national emergency, all of them). 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.
Trumpy got triggered, can't handle the news feed so he tries to censor it. Oh the irony with tiny hands...
DURR HURR TRUMP WILL HAVE ACCESS TO AN EMERGENCY MESSAGING SYSTEM THAT ANY PRESIDENT BEFORE AND AFTER HIM SHOULD ALSO HAVE DURR HURR
Yeah, that's how idiotic this post sounded.
What's the next headline? This just in, Trump will have a spot in the oval office? OMG, he might start a fire there and shit on the floor! OMG!
He'll mind blowingly have secret service access? OMG! He might use them to kill all democrats! He'll definitely tell them to rape your daughters late at night!
They let him speak with Obama, and other high political figures! Do you think he told them I peed my blankies when I was a kid?
You guys elected him. Now, shut the fuck up about it. Give if a fucking rest. When and if he starts implementing bad policies in office, THEN you start complaining.
Sound like a bunch of retards that can only overreact to crap that doesn't matter... you deserve Trump. That's what this is.