Do media aggregators have a duty to provide links to public news sources in emergencies?
Can the Canadian please just have an official platform for sharing this kind of information? Why are evacuation notices going on Facebook???
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?
@FireRetardant @library_napper
Because not everyone has a cell, leaves their phone on while they're sleeping, has good reliable service, etc etc.
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.
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…