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by AdieuToLogic 880 days ago
This argument is nonsensical.

Site hosting is not a customer cost.

The rest you list are costs orthogonal to this service.

> But asking the customer to pay google to query the data is crossing the line?

Yes.

Why are you arguing for a US government agency to require its citizens to pay for access to data which they have already paid for by funding said agency?