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> Cui bono?

Barry Myers of AccuWeather for one: they charge for their services. See "The Plan to Privatize Weather Forecasts":

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-pro...

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archiv...

* https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...

John Oliver did a story about this in 2019 (Trump 1.0):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers#Nomination_to_...

If NOAA discontinues free weather forecasts, everyone (news, websites, apps) will have to pay someone to get them.

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Honestly, I will never pay for a weather service. If I have to keep an umbrella in my bag, so be it. If it means an unexpected snow day, oh well.

Other services that depend upon weather will pass those fees down to me anyway, no reason to pay for it twice.

Um. Are you sure you don't want to know about forecasted natural disasters? This seems rather shortsighted.

Notices about natural disaster should not be pay walled, full stop

Medical care should not be pay walled, full stop.

Oops. Looks like precedence has been set.

The fact that something is done a certain way currently has no bearing on whether it should be done that way.

Healthcare is a curious example to choose, too, since US healthcare is probably one of the worst examples of corruption, waste, and inefficiency of any industry I can think of.

What will stop them?

Hopefully the courts, which have been found so some so far

Congress should also be weighing in, but...

The VP has already stated that they'll disregard court rulings. So yeah, courts are going to be useless.

SCOTUS has already said POTUS is immune. Anyone else not covered by that immunity would be potentially pardoned. After they are pardoned, they are free to go back to doing exactly what they were doing before. They become untouchable.

SCOTUS really screwed the public with that immunity ruling

> Congress should also be weighing in, but...

(One-half of) Congress couldn't be bothered to weight in when there was an attempted insurrection / self-coup:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_T...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

I'm sure I'll hear about it.

I see nothing wrong with private entities having to pay for weather forecasts instead of leeching off the taxpayers.

Why would you not extend that idea to paying for gps access directly?

Simply stated, the idea is that it is a public good for businesses to know the weather as well as they can. For somewhat self evident reasons.

> Simply stated, the idea is that it is a public good for businesses to know the weather as well as they can.

But not for the business who sell weather services. How can we maximize shareholder value and grow GDP if we don't financialize every possible things? /s

> The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.

* https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...

A model where a business that makes money off of the public data, after a certain time or amount of money a fee schedule kicks in where they pay back into the system seems like it would make sense.

One could call that a 'tax', and to keep the process streamlined, instead of itemizing the benefits that corporations get from government services, one could simply charge a percentage of profits.

That seems reasonable but I was imagining a system that allowed a window of time to bolster innovation. Maybe that's silly.

Private entities pay taxes too.

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