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The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations

A critical piece of tech infrastructure that lets people talk to the government has been disabled.
The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations
Photo by Kane Reinholdtsen / Unsplash

It became harder to tell the government how you feel about pending rules and regulations starting on Friday, thanks to a backend change to the website where people submit public comments. Regulations.gov removed the POST function from its API, a critical piece of tech that allowed third party organizations to bypass the website’s terrible user interface.

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