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No government should rely on Facebook to provide life-saving emergency information to its citizens. Of course, the Canadian government doesn’t really and this is just shitty political theatre.

This is it. Why are governments utilizing these abysmal services for communications? The US has plenty that do it and it seems like to use them is more often an exclusive thing than to signal boost other methods. As someone without social media sans HN I'm continuously irritated that they haven't produced a means of delivering information electronically independent of these platforms.

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