It’s a child. They can’t fend for themselves when their parents are assholes. I’ll take an occasional hellish alert if it can help a child in need escape abuse. That poor kid looked so bad in the photo. Terrible. Fucking awful.

Not even sure what the alerts have to do with this, but.. I would rather be woken, than have a child slip through the cracks that could have been saved.

Some people care about others, others are selfish. You opinion is just that, yours.

The fact that you take pleasure in it is a whole other discussion...

While I agree that overly wide blanket alerts for missing children are doing more harm than good, I fail to see how that's relevant to this article...

Edit for the downvoters out there:

Lest you think this is out of some concern for my own convenience, I'm fortunate enough to have a fairly flexible schedule and I don't need to drive daily. I can sleep in if I get woken up, but most people need to leave and go to work regardless of a poor night's rest. My concern is for anyone who needs to drive, or do any job where mistakes can lead to loss of life.

I'd ask you to consider daylight savings time. Studies of it have confirmed that disrupting peoples sleep en masse has a direct cost in human lives. The costs need to be considered carefully and weighed against the benefits, and alerts like this need to be as localized as realistically useful. Someone 40km away should absolutely not be getting a presidential level alert about a missing child in the middle of the night which overrides DND mode.