Looks like the UK may finally be having a proper emergency alert system via the telecoms network. gov.uk/alerts/planned
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Ontario abuses the Presidential Alert level for amber alerts so it treats every missing child as an imminent nuclear attack with a mandatory siren + spoken alert.
They've ended up really pissing people off (myself included) since you can't opt-out and they send them at 4am.
They also often send a separate alert in French minutes later rather than fitting both into the same message. It's normal for all Canadian government communications to be in English + French but it's quite annoying for this.
As a bonus, they often send false alerts with it...
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I really hope the UK government is responsible with it's new toy...
Its astonishing to hear that alerts get abused like that, alert channels are defined for a reason and this might have done more harm than good by people turning off alerts because of it...
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