And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
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An essay examines the ethical tension faced by telecom operators when governments compel them to send mass messages, from Vodafone Egypt broadcasting pro-regime propaganda during the 2011 revolution to the UK's 2026 wildfire emergency alert. The author explores the legal ambiguity around whether network operators can refuse government-mandated alerts, referencing Civic Hygiene (a concept coined by Bruce Schneier) and the impossibility of designing an emergency alert system that can only be used for good and never for evil.
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