New Legislation Suggests Implementing Emergency Alerts Into Streaming Services Like Netflix and Spotify

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Why should @miniyou64 refuse to use something they've been forced to pay for, especially when the government mandates that no alternatives are permitted to exist?

Taking something from someone via the threat of violence is either threat or extortion, period.

If you don’t pay taxes, the IRS will audit you and you will be fined and/or sued. That doesn’t strike me as a threat of violence. There are hundreds of legal ways to lower your tax obligation as well. You can also choose to elect different politicians who better serve your interests. Privatization eliminates that option.

You really want one or two private companies to own your roads? How do you collect money to run the court systems? Do you pay separately for fire and police protection? What about the military?

 

[JayKay514]

Not sure that is true, I think your cable company can send an alert if needed no matter which channel you are watching.

This is certainly true in Canada. We get weather alerts and Amber Alerts cutting in over the broadcast, but they seem to originate from our cable provider, not the TV network necessarily.

Canadian cable providers have a lot of tech for switching source feeds quickly anyway (due to Canadian content rules; if a show is broadcast on a US network at the same time as a Canadian network, the Canadian feed is substituted, which is why Canadians never see Super Bowl ads...)

We recently got the first trials of wireless alerts, and they were mixed. Not everyone receives them; as modern cell networks are digital, packet-switched and use spread-spectrum / frequency hopping to save bandwidth, it's very hard to push an alert out to every device without packet collisions and some sort of bandwidth jamming.

In theory phones could have a 'weather radio' function, where they listen on reserved emergency analog radio channels for a trigger signal, like the EAS header codes, in order to 'wake up' the device and show the alert. It'd require some additional circuitry but it's not impossible.

 

[extrachrispy]

If you don’t pay taxes, the IRS will audit you and you will be fined and/or sued. That doesn’t strike me as a threat of violence.

What happens if you resist at that point? Cf., Ed Brown, Irwin Schiff, et al.

EVERY law, bar none, is enforced, ultimately, via violence or the threat of violence, from the lowliest parking ticket on up to the proscription against premeditated murder.

"You really want one or two private companies to own your roads? How do you collect money to run the court systems? Do you pay separately for fire and police protection? What about the military?

I have no problems with private companies owning roads. If they're *******s, I'll use a different road. I don't get that choice with the government.

I'd be perfectly fine with paying a subscription fee for fire and police protection. If one department sucks, I'll subscribe with a competing department.

Re the military: if we stopped overseas adventurism, I have little doubt that what little remains could easily be privately funded. Hell, the militia model that begat the second amendment did not require a professional standing army in the first place.

 

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What happens if you resist at that point? Cf., Ed Brown, Irwin Schiff, et al.

EVERY law, bar none, is enforced, ultimately, via violence or the threat of violence, from the lowliest parking ticket on up to the proscription against premeditated murder.



I have no problems with private companies owning roads. If they're *******s, I'll use a different road. I don't get that choice with the government.

I'd be perfectly fine with paying a subscription fee for fire and police protection. If one department sucks, I'll subscribe with a competing department.

Re the military: if we stopped overseas adventurism, I have little doubt that what little remains could easily be privately funded. Hell, the militia model that begat the second amendment did not require a professional standing army in the first place.

You’ll use a different road huh? And then when one company buys all the roads and raises your rate I guess you’ll be stuck at home.

Doesn’t it occur to you that you’d end up paying more money by privatizing all these services?

 

[extrachrispy]

You’ll use a different road huh? And then when one company buys all the roads and raises your rate I guess you’ll be stuck at home.

Monopolies do not exist without the cooperation of government.

Doesn’t it occur to you that you’d end up paying more money by privatizing all these services?

No, it does not. You've made an assertion without evidence. Per Christopher Hitchens, I'll happily dismiss it without evidence.

 

[8281]

Monopolies do not exist without the cooperation of government.



No, it does not. You've made an assertion without evidence. Per Christopher Hitchens, I'll happily dismiss it without evidence.

Every time I try to earnestly engage with a libertarian and challenge their assumptions, all I get is responses like your own. It’s all ideology without any thought about the practical implementation and consequences of said ideology.

 

[extrachrispy]

Every time I try to earnestly engage with a libertarian and challenge their assumptions, all I get is responses like your own. It’s all ideology without any thought about the practical implementation and consequences of said ideology.

The sum total of your rebuttal amounts to a vapid insult, none of which is true.