Yet another instance of a private company shitting up what should be a public utility

  • GaveUp [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Does one of the richest countries and most technologically advanced really not have a public service/budget/team for this? The citizens have to instead rely on a private company running at a loss which is why they can’t afford a higher Twitter tier?

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      10 months ago

      The citizens have to instead rely on a private company running at a loss which is why they can’t afford a higher Twitter tier?

      People used to see disaster prevention-related ads next to those tweets before those advertisers dropped Twitter, right? For big companies like Uber or Twitter (before Elon bought it), “running at a loss” was mainly an accounting trick, I thought

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Germany only got a disaster prevention app (NINA) after the 2021 floods in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Japan does have some civil protection features through its public broadcasting to my knowledge, but I suppose it works like here, that there are redundant firms offering the same service, such as the app of the German Weather Service (DWD), partially at least for disaster prevention services being underfunded.