Don Whiteside on Nostr: if this is consistent with the efforts of a decade ago its arguably grosser than ...

if this is consistent with the efforts of a decade ago its arguably grosser than that; they wanted to keep the parts that did the research and analysis but stop sharing the results freely with the world and competing with the weather.com sorts, making it yet another thing the government does that the oligarchs can turn around and make money from.

edit: here's the article about this from 2017 https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuweather/index.html