Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see someone cancel a subscription to a closed journal. I think that any research which is publicly funded should be available for free (and without a delay either). However, I don’t think that’s why these subscriptions are being cancelled, and it didn’t sound like the original commenter was trying to make that point.

There are a lot of valuable articles I’d want government employees to have access to so they could make evidence-based decisions, which outweighs whatever happiness I might feel about a publisher losing revenue.