Talk:OpenDataPrinciples/non-discriminatory

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Anonymous access to the data must be allowed for public data, including access through anonymous proxies.

Data should not be hidden behind "walled gardens," accessible only to certain classes of Internet users. To use analogies from earlier periods of the Internet, data only accessible via AOL, Internet 2, or Bloomberg would be considered to be presented in a discriminatory manner.

In order to be truly open, if the data is accessible from some kind of interface, there should be some straightforward means of exporting it (flattening it) to be imported into other tools. Open data doesn't do us a whole lot of good if we can't export it, dump it into local DB and run out own analysis.