The part you mention I was aware of and am actually thankful for. This, at least to me, goes much further. Hence the shock. Updated my post w/more details so it makes more sense (hopefully).
I've understood cell broadcasts are also used for advertisements/otherwise spammy stuff in eg. the US? Then I could understand you considering cell broadcast being turned on being unreasonable
For example, what politician could turn down the grieving parents of a kidnapped child, when they call for using the emergency alert system for missing children?
But if I work from home, and there aren't any kidnapped children in my home, then waking me up at 5am with a missing child alert just inconveniences for no benefit to anyone.
Everyone will be forced to see how much they care which proves how good they are, like it or not!
Stranger than waking people up from sleep for a custody disagreement, is when they'd broadcast those on TV... The purpose of those is not to find the kid, but to send a message to TV viewers, none of whom would be of any assistance in finding the kid.
You see this display of "care" with storm sirens being set off after the storm already passed the area.
Well guess what? The Quebec government sends every type of alert, even the regular test ones, with the presidential alert severity which makes all of these settings useless and does nothing but irritate the population with spammy messages. Recently, they sent out an AMBER alert that was supposed to be localized in some area and, instead, sent it everywhere in Quebec except for the affected area. This is exactly why people have the right to remain skeptical about alert systems like this one.
Err, no - emergency alerts aren’t used for advertising here.
Just wait when your neighbor repeats the packet at night, locally and undetected
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts#Se...