Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call

Re:Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the Pres... by Lagged2Death on Sunday July 16, 2017 @10:46AM (#14782176)

Dexter Palmer's 2016 novel Version Control had imagined something rather like this in a near-future United States, where phone calls and video screens would occasionally be interrupted by a message from the president.

I had thought it was inventive and evocative, but sort of unrealistic.

I was wrong. Yikes.

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Re:Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the Pres... by alanh on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:26PM (#14784180)

So easy to imagine Trump doing this, too. He's already made much ado of needing Twitter to be heard properly instead of going through the "fake" (mainstream) news media. Imagine Twitter no longer feels like enough of a megaphone to the egomaniac. Is there any law against pressuring telcos to do this? Would he care if there were? Would he even be challenged if it came in response to a national emergency?

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Re:Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the Pres... by madtxl on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:28AM (#14795091)

Watch Black Mirror's episode "Fifteen Million Merits"...

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