These 'controlling agencies' need all the help they can get. Just because this is a crisis doesn't mean civil rights are thrown to the wind. Primary media outlets are fine at spreading generalized nonsense. But when it comes to critical local information, the slack must be picked up by independent groups like this.
The airwaves are already filled with false information, a low powered fm transmitter and a group of folks who want to help the situation are certainly not going to make anything worse.
This is absurd, what year is this again? Newsletters and loudspeakers to distribute safety information but no radio? Need to inform thousands of people of imminent danger, please wait while we print newsletters and distribute them one at a time to inform people of the matter.
Failure to use technology to properly distribute information is one of the many reasons this disaster occured in the first place. Lets just repeat that mistake again.
I'm a firm believer that the DHS has no place in its present state dealing with 'technology.' They clearly have their hands full with remarkably menial tasks.
Even so it is yet another powerless position that we as tax payers must foot the bill for, let the bloating continue!
Just did a catch all search for "Chinese Government Censorship" A whopping 44000 results showed up with hardly controversial topics.
The same search on google revealed 222000 results with some pretty striking headlines.
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Well clearly you missed an important point:
These 'controlling agencies' need all the help they can get. Just because this is a crisis doesn't mean civil rights are thrown to the wind. Primary media outlets are fine at spreading generalized nonsense. But when it comes to critical local information, the slack must be picked up by independent groups like this.
The airwaves are already filled with false information, a low powered fm transmitter and a group of folks who want to help the situation are certainly not going to make anything worse.
This is absurd, what year is this again? Newsletters and loudspeakers to distribute safety information but no radio? Need to inform thousands of people of imminent danger, please wait while we print newsletters and distribute them one at a time to inform people of the matter. Failure to use technology to properly distribute information is one of the many reasons this disaster occured in the first place. Lets just repeat that mistake again.
I'm a firm believer that the DHS has no place in its present state dealing with 'technology.' They clearly have their hands full with remarkably menial tasks.
Even so it is yet another powerless position that we as tax payers must foot the bill for, let the bloating continue!
Just did a catch all search for "Chinese Government Censorship" A whopping 44000 results showed up with hardly controversial topics. The same search on google revealed 222000 results with some pretty striking headlines.