cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19124166
Social media giant Meta blocked or hid Facebook search results for “Cyclone Alfred” ahead of the tropical storm bearing down on Australia’s east coast.
The platform is a key communication channel for emergency coverage in Australia and is used to help broadcast evacuation orders and other updates to residents during a crisis.
Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall between the Gold Coast and southern parts of Wide Bay region as early as Thursday evening as a category two cyclone.
It is forecast to bring destructive winds and the risk of life-threatening flooding.
But general searches about cyclones or “TC Alfred” did produce information and articles in the search results, indicating some kind of throttling about the term Cyclone Alfred specifically.
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The Queensland government has urged the community to visit its disaster monitoring website for the most up-to-date information.
You misunderstood me. We are on the same page. However this tangent intrigues me.
I am old enough to remember the JJJ transition to national youth station. I never met Frollows but his ambient show on Sunday nights was my favorite. Definitely not youth music. Did it get axed too at that time?
Frollows fired Tony Biggs after he played NWA on air.
He is immortalised in the song “Arnold Frollows is a Genius” by Front End Loader, which was a sarcastic criticism of him.
Are you sure about Biggs?
A news reader was disciplined at first for playing a snippet but authorities backed down.
That article is wrong in that “Express Youself” was played on repeat in protest well beyond 4:30pm and therefore completed a full 24 hours.