Comment on Wish there was a community called !furiouslyinfuriating for shit like this...

• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was also thinking this could also be contesting the legislation for the freedom of information act by requiring a citizen of the US to own or possess a computer, smart phone or email address. The dept that runs FOIL offers the ability to request information by phone or email whereas this site does not. But I haven’t looked into any of this so I’m prolly 100% wrong. I don’t even remember if FOIL is federal or NY state ran program.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is really frustrating to me that data which is supposedly public cannot be simply downloaded all together as a large dataset, instead you have to go through a convoluted process to access only a very narrow subset of it

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