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Ads and cookies are hardly the worst thing that AccuWeather has done. They have been lobbying the federal government for 30 years to forbid NOAA from issuing fo

Ads and cookies are hardly the worst thing that AccuWeather has done. They have been lobbying the federal government for 30 years to forbid NOAA from issuing forecasts at all. They want the government to pay for all the satellites and supercomputers, and they want all that data for free, but they want you to have to pay AccuWeather for forecasts.

Teever 2y ago
In situations like this I feel that it is important to put a face to a name. AccuWeather, a corporation like any other is made of people. These shortsighted decisions and shitty behavior are directly attributable to people who do them for selfish reasons. So let's start talking about these people in the first person, not in the abstract. Who is directly responsible for these atrocious actions and why do they stand to benefit from them?
- jonathankoren 2y ago
  > So let's start talking about these people in the first person, not in the abstract. Here are two: Rick Santorum and Jim Bridenstine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/09/congress-is-considering-privatizing-key-roles-of-the-weather-service-thats-a-mistake/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
  - b112 2y ago
    This same junk happens in Canada. Attempts to disrupt pages like this: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-118_metric_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-118_metric_e.html and any info from Environment Canada, being packaged in a way that might compete, with the very same people using Environment Canada's free data for-profit. Cries of "How can the Government compete with the private sector" are thrown around, always glossing over how that very data is often sourced from the Government. Pathetic. Leeches of the worst kind.
    - Teever 2y ago
      But who? Who specifically in Canada is making these cries?
- detourdog 2y ago
  I was at a wedding where the accu-weather guy was complaining the NFL was a monopoly because they wouldn't let Rush Limbaugh buy a team...
sea-gold 2y ago
John Oliver had an episode[1] of Last Week Tonight which discussed some of this I believe. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

Teever 2y ago

In situations like this I feel that it is important to put a face to a name. AccuWeather, a corporation like any other is made of people. These shortsighted decisions and shitty behavior are directly attributable to people who do them for selfish reasons. So let's start talking about these people in the first person, not in the abstract. Who is directly responsible for these atrocious actions and why do they stand to benefit from them?

jonathankoren 2y ago
> So let's start talking about these people in the first person, not in the abstract. Here are two: Rick Santorum and Jim Bridenstine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/09/congress-is-considering-privatizing-key-roles-of-the-weather-service-thats-a-mistake/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
- b112 2y ago
  This same junk happens in Canada. Attempts to disrupt pages like this: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-118_metric_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-118_metric_e.html and any info from Environment Canada, being packaged in a way that might compete, with the very same people using Environment Canada's free data for-profit. Cries of "How can the Government compete with the private sector" are thrown around, always glossing over how that very data is often sourced from the Government. Pathetic. Leeches of the worst kind.
  - Teever 2y ago
    But who? Who specifically in Canada is making these cries?
detourdog 2y ago
I was at a wedding where the accu-weather guy was complaining the NFL was a monopoly because they wouldn't let Rush Limbaugh buy a team...

sea-gold 2y ago

John Oliver had an episode[1] of Last Week Tonight which discussed some of this I believe. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8