Kalifornier sagen, X habe sie daran gehindert, Amber Alert über vermissten 14-Jährigen anzusehen | Viele Leute berichteten, dass sie auf einen Bildschirm stießen, der sie daran hinderte, die Warnung zu sehen, es sei denn, sie meldeten sich an.
https://www.wired.com/story/amber-alert-paywall-california/
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Hmm, Wired blocked me from reading the article about blocking access to a private media company. This links to a page that says I need to login.
While I can agree it’s a bad look for X to require a login to view emergency info, I’d argue it’s more an issue that the CA county is relying on a private company to host/publish their emergency broadcasts. They should use a publicly funded/hosted site instead of using X or any privately owned site.
People are still using that piece of shit?
Til
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Why are Californians using Xitter for Amber Alerts in the first place. Pretty sure both Android and iPhone have Amber Alerts built in and enabled by default.
Why do people still use X, formerly known as Twitter?
Seems like X isn’t a reliable public communication network and isn’t as ubiquitous as it’s perceived.
Actually received this specific amber alert – to make things even worse they used a bitly link in the push notification. We have law enforcement expecting/training people to click on anonymized links and enter their log in credentials?
CHP needs to get their digital house in order.
They shouldn’t be using X to announce anything. iPhones and Android can do it natively. Send text messages. This is their own fault
Boycott President Musk and Twitter and Tesla
Look at the two ignorant, greedy douche bags, who run X and Facebook. What do you expect? Doctor, it hurts when I keep punching myself in the face! Whatever can I do?! Drinking all this alcohol is destroying my liver! Oh dear, oh heavens, oh, what can we do?
Why the hell do people complain about stuff they don’t have to use? Using X, Facebook, etc is completely optional. Damn!
X gonna take it from yer.
Agencies don’t use “X” as their primary means of comm, grow up and check your phone for alerts 😂
Stop using xhitter for Amber Alert
Isn’t X that social media platform that died a few years back when people stopped using it because of how bad it was?
Honestly think state and federal government need to all host their own Mastodon instances instead of using Twitter for announcements.
Aren’t 99% of these alerts just public custody battles?
Government entities need to re-evaluate their communication platform(s). It is as simple as that.
Twitter. It’s called Twitter.
Wait, do amber alerts not get sent to phones without X now? Or am I misunderstanding. I don’t use X because it’s ran by Elon Mussolini and has kinda always been toxic even before.
arent those type of alerts pushed thru the phones OS . why are people relying on a website for those emergencies?
The issue isn’t X. It’s the state sending people to X, a privately owned right wing platform. The state should have it’s own website – free and open – to send anyone. It’s actually insane their text alerts link to X.