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33. That last item in the list (the CDC) is also about privatizing the data...

Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:52 PM

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...so that the American public (and the academic world) gets double-billed: once for the data to be collected, and again each time the data is accessed. This is exactly what Rick Santorum was trying to do with NOAA and the National Weather Service. In fact, one of Santorum's big funders was the founder of a private weather company who wanted to lock up the data so he could own it exclusively.

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