• plz1
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    372 months ago

    The mobile carriers and device OEM’s already participate directly in the Amber alert program. Why is X even part of this?

    • Jesus
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      272 months ago

      The problem isn’t the alert itself, it’s that cops put Twitter links in the alert. If you want to see what the car, suspect, or victim look like, you need to be able to access Twitter.

      Police have been doing this for years now. It’s a fast a cheap way to microblog without buying or supporting something with the city’s budget.

      • @VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works
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        72 months ago

        Yup funds, and the web traffic handleability.
        My small city (population 89,000) had a 911 outage about 2 years ago. Their solution was to sms text or voice dial everyone with the message “…please dial any county non-emergency number… see a list of numbers at bitly.url…”. The hosted website was hugged-to-death.

        After fines, it was inevitably cheaper to extend the nearest net backbone closer to our neck of the woods and upgrade all county things with fiber and data centers.

      • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        62 months ago

        Can’t have those ticket funds going to digital infrastructure when you gotta get up armored trucks to deal with protesters.