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The point is that these alerts need to he on sites that people actually check.
I dont wake up every morning and scroll through the government's PSA website. I do wake up and scroll my Lemmy news communities.
I get texts all the time for amber alerts that I can rarely assist with, why can't an emergency message be sent over the same system?
CBC provides service in the north in numerous Indigenous languages, including through its Facebook pages which many in those communities rely on.
As a public broadcaster it has a duty to meet the needs of Canadians for essential information where they look not just in English and French on standard internet sites, or even their low bandwidth emergency ones.
@FireRetardant @library_napper
Because not everyone has a cell, leaves their phone on while they're sleeping, has good reliable service, etc etc.
Most people browse facebook or instagram from their phone these days. I'm not saying that only a texting system should work in fact there should be several methods ranging from radio, tv, internet, and those updatable information signs over hwys.
How does having news on Meta changes access to information in this case? Heck, it would only mean that these people can get alerts through radio or TV.
@Kecessa
Not always in remote regions like NWT.
CBC/Radio-Canada radio automatically gets interrupted to broadcast amber alerts/meteorological alerts, are you saying it's not the case in NWT? If so there's no good reason it isn't.
Heck, on a two hours trip my radio got cut three or four times because of tornado risks around Ottawa the other day...
IF the goal is to get as many people to see it as possible just hijack the DNS and point everyone to a government website with relevant information.