I'm putting this on my calendar so I remember to turn off my phone that day.

This isn’t “Trumps” program. It’s a legitimate emergency management tool and program, run by competent career professionals, established by the Obama Administration.

All this hysteria about it or the “GoDark” nonsense is childish and just makes our side look petty and immature.

Put your worries and efforts into something that’s a real issue and really matters and stop with the childish petty nonsense like this.

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There is tremendous potential for abuse here.

The law says the phone companies have to pass on emergency messages. The companies are only complying with what they are legally mandated.

There is nobody to sue, it’s an absurd notion.

Here is a fact sheet on the program- it is a new aspect of the existing Emergency Alert system that you get tests for on your TV and radio now.

The expanded capabilities to reach cell phones was created as a result of a modernization panned signed into law in 2015 by President Obama.

Yeah, we have never had anything like this before. Because the technology wasn’t there to do it. Thank President Obama for this modernization of our nations Emergency Alert system.

The only reason it’s being called a “message from the President” is that normally only the White House can order a full nationwide test activation to people’s phones.

The actual message that will appear on phones is already published. It will say:

“THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”

That’s it. That is all this message will say. People are freaking out like children over that message popping up on their phones.