The First Amendment grants a speaker many rights, like the right to speak and the right not to speak. What most people don’t realize is that the First Amendment also grants a listener similar rights; it grants listeners both the right to listen, and the right not to listen. In October of 2018, the IPAWS emergency alert system ran its first nationwide test utilizing presidential alerts. What went largely overlooked about the new presidential alerts was the unchecked expansion of power and reach that the alert system grants the sitting president. The new nationwide emergency alert system violates a person’s right not to listen, and more specifically, their right against government compelled listening.