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Re:Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota by anewguy on Friday October 19, 2012 @12:28PM (#4674201)
Imagine if people could sell goods and services to each other without the resident government doing a quality check. What a hell that would be.

Wait a second, is this a certified political opinion that I'm replying to? Do you have your Internet politics license? I don't want to be cheated arguing with a low-quality commenter.

Re:Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota by jlarocco on Friday October 19, 2012 @03:17PM (#4675004)
First, you're kinda putting words in my mouth. I'm not defending the law, I'm just pointing out that it's not as unjustified as people are making it out to be. The government provides and regulates education for children, it's not entirely unreasonable that they'd have their hand in higher education, too.

Also, it's nice to think that everybody would play nice, but without laws like this there are assholes who would teach people crap. Laws like this don't exist because somebody decided to make an arbitrary law out of nowhere. Apparently it was a big enough problem that the majority of people in Minnesota thought there should be a law...

Re:Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota by anewguy on Saturday October 20, 2012 @12:09AM (#4676336)
No, it's absolutely fuckjng deplorable when a government stops the free flow of goods, services, and information to protect archaic business practices.