[tonymet]

You’re thinking small. I’m thinking big. That’s the difference.

[ethbr1]

You're arguing in favor of making consumers require an account at a company that's already centralized too much of the web.

That's fundamentally a lot worse than the government paying hosting costs to one particular vendor for a commodity service.

[anon7725]

You really aren’t. You’re talking like someone who is willfully ignorant of the decades of internet history that have preceded this conversation.

People have quite literally died over the issue of public access to public data. It’s quite an important belay point to arrest the deterioration of the spirit of open networks.

[tonymet]

Host it as csvs as a backup