Why didn't I receive an Amber Alert?

No, they actually can be very effective and have resulted in people being located/saved. The more eyes looking the better.

Look, I didn't insult you, where do you get off insulting me? Just because I don't want big brother on my telephone? Does insulting me make you feel double plus good?

ya right...

keep licking, licking...

No, you really aren't worth it.

Turn off the alerts (you cannot turn off the presidential alerts).

Huh? It isn't really hard to confirm what I just told you and the Boston bombing was an example of all those eyes and cell phones being helpful.

yes...taking photos or videos as normal... the "alerts" didn't play any role..

if they had to play any role, it wouldn't have happened.

Ah, the controllers are condensecending too. You aren't worthy to have this annoyance installed on your phone without your permission...

How did we get from the sixties to become a nation of sheep?

AGAIN, the alerts have been useful. Not easy to find that out. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that alerting people within an area of an incident can be effective. So you are saying if an alert had somehow been sent everyone would have shut down their phones and refused to help?

No the haven't been useful, they haven't accomplished a thing but established a precident for installing software on your phone without your permission. That's their purpose.

it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if there's an explosion, everyone within a mile would be alerted anyways, ...

with police cars, ambulances, and today...on the news, tweets, etc.

these alerts are just useless because they don't work. you are assuming people see the "red" TSA airports and think "oh , i gotta be careful now,,, the sign is red" 🙂

They are part of a carrier update that can't be refused per usual. They have been on Sprint, Verizon and other phones for more than a year. As I said you can turn them off EXCEPT for the presidential alerts whatever they might end up being (aliens attacking? Obamacare threat?) which you can't disable. If you go back to an iPhone 4 you won't get them as that phone is not WEA capable. Any new phone you buy in the future will have them built in and as of now you can disable 2 of them.

I dont know

I have no idea what you are referring to with the TSA color alerts. If you receive an alert on your phone that is regarding a kidnapped child in a black Acura MDX, LP 134JUK, and that car happens to be in the intersection in front of you most people would report it. And it has occurred on many occassions. Getting information out to get more eyes helps. It isn't rocket science.

Presidential alerts are meaningless, they are basically a kiss your ### goodbye message.

can you cite a reported instance of a amber phone alert used successfully in a missing person's case? then i'll eat my words