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0 pointsbananaface5y ago0 comments

Harvard & MIT were sued for putting up free lectures, because they didn't have captions[1]. Harvard eventually settled[2], not sure about MIT. I believe MIT's response was actually to pull a lot of the lectures, but I don't know if that stuck.

In that case the main complaint seemed to be that they had more of an obligation because they were receiving federal funding.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit...

2: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/12/2/Harvard-settles...

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ausjke5y ago· 2 in thread

this is how things work these days, for the sake of equality, minority overrule majority everywhere, i.e. if something makes a small percentage of people unhappy, then it is too unfair, the solution to play it safe, is that let's get rid it of for all.

adamsea5y ago

Are you complaining that the United States has laws to make sure organizations don’t simply choose to ignore the needs of blind people, deaf people, and other people with disabilities?

bananafaceOP5y ago

Not the person you replied to, but I do think it's ridiculous that they were able to sue them over free content. All it did was put up barriers against dissemination. I know at least one institution removed lectures because of it. Those courses are just... Gone now. Poof.

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