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Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How about avoiding commercial platforms when it comes to vitally important official communication?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Problem is that no noncommercial platform would ever have the same coverage as a commercial one like X. People simply would not see the necessity to install it until it's too late.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is just a failure in government/governance.

There is literally an opportunity for every nation in the world to run it's own social media service as a hub for government services, alerts etc. If a couple of them did it open source it could be a world standard for government. Even now the wealthiest nations are scrambling to do something like this but it's too little, too late.

And even when they figure out software/process there's no government infrastructure that can compete with the private sector. Amazon in particular are a scary one to me - the amount of sensitive data governments around the world casually chuck into S3 is going to end very badly for a lot of people.

We need governments to get serious about digital infrastructure and security, in the same way they ensure food security, sanitation. Digital capability is just not negotiable anymore, it's vital.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Android & IOS have an emergency alert system that the government can use if they want to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could always go the route of an amber alert-like system being primary and then pipe the same msg to their secondary commercial platforms (like X). I'm not privy on the details but it sounds irresponsible to rely on X primarily/solely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's what they're doing, Twitter/X is only redundancy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The thing is, they communicate where people's at. People gotta move

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They do, all phones get an emergency alert and tvs display a message. Twitter was another vector to spread the word out.