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Amish men ‘shunned’ after nationwide emergency alert outs them for having phones (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that thought process, wouldn't these people more likely to have their hidden phone discovered by spontaneous Amber Alerts? Those come with no warning, whereas the NAS did come with a heads up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can turn those off entirely.