Both are true. And they want the data privatized so only they can profit from it.
I was glossing over the details. To clarify - and I think you mean this - they want the free data from NWS but they don’t want that same data to be publicly available. Except that’s not generally how federal government data works - by law in most cases it has to be made public. But that’s kind of irrelevant in the context of “disband the NWS” at least in the sense that Accuweather very much wants the free ride to continue or failing that to get handed all the NWS resources, which isn’t gonna fly not least because other providers would strongly object. IOW, this is all kind of DOA.
Accuweather doesn’t compete with NWS, they rely on it’s data.
Both are true. And they want the data privatized so only they can profit from it.
I was glossing over the details. To clarify - and I think you mean this - they want the free data from NWS but they don’t want that same data to be publicly available. Except that’s not generally how federal government data works - by law in most cases it has to be made public. But that’s kind of irrelevant in the context of “disband the NWS” at least in the sense that Accuweather very much wants the free ride to continue or failing that to get handed all the NWS resources, which isn’t gonna fly not least because other providers would strongly object. IOW, this is all kind of DOA.