The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links.

While internet access is reportedly limited in Yellowknife, residents are finding this a barrier to getting current and accurate information. Even links to CBC radio are blocked.

  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I get texts all the time for amber alerts that I can rarely assist with, why can’t an emergency message be sent over the same system?

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      1 year ago

      CBC provides service in the north in numerous Indigenous languages, including through its Facebook pages which many in those communities rely on.

      As a public broadcaster it has a duty to meet the needs of Canadians for essential information where they look not just in English and French on standard internet sites, or even their low bandwidth emergency ones.

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        1 year ago

        Most people browse facebook or instagram from their phone these days. I’m not saying that only a texting system should work in fact there should be several methods ranging from radio, tv, internet, and those updatable information signs over hwys.

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        1 year ago

        How does having news on Meta changes access to information in this case? Heck, it would only mean that these people can get alerts through radio or TV.

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            1 year ago

            CBC/Radio-Canada radio automatically gets interrupted to broadcast amber alerts/meteorological alerts, are you saying it’s not the case in NWT? If so there’s no good reason it isn’t.

            Heck, on a two hours trip my radio got cut three or four times because of tornado risks around Ottawa the other day…