Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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.
The government uses EAS and WEA to disseminate alerts. Both are government-operated systems that are not controlled, manipulated, lost, or disconnected by third parties. The AMBER alert in question was delivered via both EAS and WEA.
The Xhitter avenue (along with every other major social media platform) is what they refer to as a “secondary distributor”.
Except the primary distributor doesn’t have any actionable details.
Yep! I finally got confirmation of that when someone posted a screenshot of the alert.
What a bunch of chucklefucks.
According to the article, that was not done in this case, hence the article.
Yes, that is the claim I’m looking to verify. Is that claim accurate?
You can view past alerts you have received. On android phones, Settings > Notifications > Wireless Emergency Alerts > Emergency alert history. (or just search for “Amber”). One screenshot can easily prove or disprove the article’s claim.
Again, if this is actually what happened, it indicates a problem not just with CHP, but also with EAS and WEA for not ensuring the requested alert message included the emergency content.
spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Don’t worry they spam everyone’s cell phones with deafening alerts at 3am too.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Thankfully all but the shitty national ones can be turned off on most Android phones.