Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:
University of Chicago's Library teamed up with the university's Data Science Institute to start mirroring and making accessible US federal data, including what looks like a verbatim copy of `ftp://ftp.census.gov/geo/tiger`
https://datamirror.lib.uchicago.edu/
This is no small feat! There's a bit more info is available at https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/uchicago-data-mirror-website-launched-to-protect-access-to-public-datasets/