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Re:20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocab... by darawk on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:52PM (#13887877)
Yes, but deaf people are always at a disadvantage. The law cannot eliminate that. All it can do is make reasonable compromises to mitigate it. This compromise is very clearly not reasonable.
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Re:20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocab... by idiot_stick on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:59PM (#13887958)
>Yes, but deaf people are always at a disadvantage.

I agree.

>The law cannot eliminate that. All it can do is make reasonable compromises to mitigate it.

I also agree with this. And I believe that's what this law is doing: saying "you may be at a disadvantage in these ways, but you won't be in this way if we can help it."

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Re:20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocab... by smt88 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:59PM (#13887965)
The law doesn't say to remove the content. It says to make it accessible.
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