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Paging Harrison Bergeron Mar 7, 2017 19:39:11 GMT -5

Post by Don on Mar 7, 2017 19:39:11 GMT -5

UC Berkeley has been forced to remove more than 20,000 videos of lectures from free access by the public thanks to the "the handicappers general in the Department of Justice" and their enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Two employees of Gallaudet University—a school for the deaf in Washington, D.C.—filed a complaint with DOJ alleging that Berkeley's online content was inaccessible to the hearing-disabled community. After looking into the matter, DOJ determined that Berkeley had indeed violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Berkeley had two choices: spend a fortune adding closed captioning to the videos, or remove them from public view. Cost-conscious administrators chose the latter option.

Darn those unintended consequences (and bureaucratic procedure manuals).

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Paging Harrison Bergeron Mar 19, 2017 5:27:39 GMT -5

Post by Don on Mar 19, 2017 5:27:39 GMT -5

And once again, some freedomnistas step in where government has fucked up.

20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them

Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for free via LBRY.

This makes the videos freely available and discoverable by all, without reliance on any one entity to provide them (even us!).

The full catalog is over 4 TB and will be synced over the next several days.

Oh, and it's worth noting that they've stored all this... in a blockchain. If your not up on blockchains, it may be time.

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Economics puts parameters on people’s utopias. ~Peter Boettke
"It's the voter's fault" is victim-blaming in its purest sense. ~Don
The 'social contract' is to the politician what 'original sin' is to the priest. ~Don
The vision of the helpful and protective state is the most pervasive and counter-productive ideology in the world today. ~Don
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Paging Harrison Bergeron Mar 19, 2017 13:47:05 GMT -5 Don and Optimus like this

Post by robeiae on Mar 19, 2017 13:47:05 GMT -5

Mar 7, 2017 22:03:36 GMT -5 Optimus said:

Awesome, "we can't have it so nobody else can either!"

Fuckers.

It is, I think, worth noting how this has become an acceptable thing, how for many people this not only makes perfect sense but is also just.

Imo, the problem lies in the "why" behind things that are exclusionary. When there is intent to exclude, there's almost always a problem. When the exclusion is simply unintentional (oftentimes because of ignorance), there may or may not be a problem. When it's an accidental consequence of necessity, I don't think it's a problem, for the most part.

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