Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[jerry at jtcloe.net (Jerry Cloe)]

NO!! But, I would not be opposed to some type of app on the boxes that support it, one that can be dismissed or controlled by the user.
 
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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 â?? 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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