Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X - eviltoast

A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.

    • shirahara@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Fax machines are one of the main ways of communications there. I guess floppy disks are indeed partly used at municipal offices yet.

      • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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        1 year ago

        Oh, very much so. There was a big news story about two years ago where a police officer lost a floppy disk that had a bunch of people’s personal information on it.