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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by aripickar on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:00PM (#19315626)
UC Berkeley used to for a lot of computer science classes. But a lawsuit necessitated that they close caption all of their publicly available streams. Rather than pay money to get professional closed captions, they made streams private.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by sgillen on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:24PM (#19315737)
That's a real shame, a (presumably) well intentioned attempt to increase access to educational resources winds up restricting access instead. I wonder what the motivations and intended outcome of the lawsuit was.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by sosilkj on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:27PM (#19315969)
I assume the motivation was to compel UC Berkeley to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by flyingfences on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:43PM (#19315802)
It was a group of deaf people trying to get UCB to spend the money to better serve them.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by acct1771 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:48AM (#19318184)
For free...so instead dicked everyone else who otherwise would have received for free.
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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by ausbah on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:23AM (#19319080)
Because that constitutes discrimination against the deaf...
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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by shooter_mcgavin on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:01AM (#19328520)
Does that apply to free services?
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Re:Ask HN: Do any colleges live stream their lectures? by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:21PM (#19315720)
Private or... “private” ?
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