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This is what happens when governments rely on a private corporate service for public announcements
Every government should just adopt a fediverse instance of some sort, maintain it and push that to everyone to use as a public announcement service. That way it would not be controlled, manipulated, lost or disconnected if they had full control over it all the time.
This is a solved problem
Shit catches fire in Australia and we get text messages.
Our phones in America get amber alerts and extreme weather notifications too, so idk what this article is on about
Someone elaenin the thread posted a screenshot. The Amber alert in CA basically just said it was an alert and a bit.ly link to Twitter for info.
Why the fuck doesn't California actually include the info on the alert itself like I've always gotten anywhere else? That's the actual question. Every alert I have received in AZ has had all relevant info for the alert in the alert itself, never just a link elsewhere.
ignoring for a second you can turn off push notifications so that's a stupid contact method in the first place they also just linked to a 3rd party site instead of sending info directly over the system.
Did you try reading it?
Don't worry they spam everyone's cell phones with deafening alerts at 3am too.
Thankfully all but the shitty national ones can be turned off on most Android phones.