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It’s ironic that the volunteer rescue organization, North Shore Rescue, is raising an alarm about potentially dangerous information on Google by posting on Face
by curiousObject 3y ago
It’s ironic that the volunteer rescue organization, North Shore Rescue, is raising an alarm about potentially dangerous information on Google by posting on Facebook.
Because both Google and Facebook are unaccountable private companies that might be difficult for some users to access and might not respond to attempts to correct false information.
North Shore Rescue even has its own website at NorthShoreRescue.com, but still chooses to only use Facebook in this emergency situation, unfortunately.
Edit: North Shore Rescue is a volunteer organization, but is partly government-funded
- cr3ative 3y agoYet the alert has made it here, proving it was effectively distributed. Go to where the people are.
- curiousObject 3y agoCan you access their Facebook page? I cannot. Facebook demands that I create an account to read it.
- function_seven 3y agoI have no problem with going where the people are. But I think this is backwards. The information should be somewhere public, with links to it posted on FB, X, NextDoor, or whatever closed platform has a chunk of your audience.
- brailsafe 3y agoIt's a fair callout, seems like they must have either decided upon or been sold a gigantic full screen background video, and reporting on specific instances somehow didn't make it into the requirements for that website. Edit: Actually I changed my mind on this, as a search and rescue organization, there's probably 2 main messages to get across to anyone visiting their website; how to contact them, and what it might be like to volunteer. I do think it would be good to have some kind of publication mechanism, but it's possible that's too much overhead.