Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

Streaming is probably the least important thing someone could be doing. 


A lot of places don't have adequate cell service. 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Matt Erculiani" <merculiani () gmail com> 
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean () donelan com> 
Cc: "nanog () nanog org list" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2019 4:31:37 PM 
Subject: Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts? 



Sean 


I think the cellular emergency alert systems already in place have satisfied this need or should be implemented before 
forcing streaming services to alter their platforms. Plus they allow the user the ability to disable them if they so 
choose. If they have the alerts disabled and miss something important, that's on them. 


The world is evolving and I don't think interrupting streaming is necessary given all the other ways there are to alert 
a population. 


-Matt 



On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 16:23 Sean Donelan < sean () donelan com > wrote: 



https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/index.html 

New York (CNN Business) The federal emergency alert program was designed 
decades ago to interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn about 
impending danger — from severe weather events to acts of war. 

But people watch TV and listen to radio differently today. If a person is 
watching Netflix, listening to Spotify or playing a video game, for 
example, they might miss a critical emergency alert altogether. 

"More and more people are opting out of the traditional television 
services," said Gregory Touhill, a cybersecurity expert who served at the 
Department of Homeland security and was the first-ever Federal Chief 
Information Security Officer. "There's a huge population out there that 
needs to help us rethink how we do this." 

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