Yet, no one is forcing governments to use the system as-designed. In Quebec, on my phone, I can disable quite a few types of cell broadcast alerts like AMBER alerts, Test alerts, etc. The only hidden setting is the one for presidential alerts.
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.
