Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses

Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by sp332 on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:19PM (#9040287)

Yes, of course that is discrimination. But it's only illegal in certain circumstances.

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by harperlee on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:28PM (#9040361)

Well, I don't agree [1]. Neither does Wikipedia:

  "Discrimination is action that denies social participation or human rights to categories of people based on prejudice." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination)

Note the prejudice part.

[1] Not in this context; of course a visual communication discriminates among those who can and can not receive it, but what prejudice is there in just recording yourself talking?

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by sp332 on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:47PM (#9040518)

Well it's wrong. Wikipedia's source for that definition is listed as https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/discri... but it says: "The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by vonmoltke on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:33PM (#9040397)

The wiki article then contradicts itself right in the next paragraph:

Not all discrimination is based on prejudice, however.

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