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.
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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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They've now trained us to disregard the serious presidential alert level instead of using the proper severe weather and amber alert levels. Even if they did use the proper alert levels, it doesn't excuse sending multiple versions including English, French and corrections.
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We got one of those presidential alert misuse amber alerts several days ago in the middle of the night. Standard stuff in Ontario. Ontario sent 49 presidential alerts in 2019 and then 82 in 2021. Not kidding.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert_Rea
At least a lot of them are somewhat regional.
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Must be quite the experience for someone to come to Ontario and be rudely awoken at 4am thinking they will be annihilated by nuclear weapons then checking their phone to see it was nothing of the sort.
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