By making it technically available but realistically inaccessible (like bad, buggy web services) due to budget cuts and willful malice. Then with special treat

By making it technically available but realistically inaccessible (like bad, buggy web services) due to budget cuts and willful malice. Then with special treatment/access, re-sell it through your private for-profit company in the formats that NOAA should've presented it in (and has in the past). The book is worth a read if you're curious about specifics.