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by perl4ever
2497 days ago
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"How does broadcasting this tone create a clear and present danger?
It's merely a call to attention and then you need to listen to and process the subsequent message." False alarms can create a danger because they condition people not to take an alarm seriously. Even if people are pretty conscientious about treating alarms as if they are real, very few of them will continue doing so against peer pressure. |
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That'd be a stronger argument if the EAS and its predecessor the EBS were not broadcast with sufficient regularity that people approach such messages with some degree of skepticism already.
I was looking over the Wikipedia article for the EAS and I found one illegal broadcast interesting:
> In February 2011, the morning show of WIZM-FM in La Crosse, Wisconsin played a recording of the aforementioned "dead bodies" EAS hack. It inadvertently triggered the EAS on WKBT-DT, relaying both the message, as well as the hosts' laughter
Not even being able to discuss and listen to related primary material of a recent newsworthy event definitely gets into first amendment violation territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System#Tone_us...