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2016-09-21 -Land of the Free

Department of Justice: If Disabled People Can't Use Berkeley's Free Online Courses, No One Can

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Posted by charger 2016-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The article notes that the two complaintants tried to watch some of the course videos and couldn't comprehend them. I'm with them, there's not much about Berkley I understand myself

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-09-21 06:14|| 2016-09-21 06:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Reasonable Accommodation has (as expected) become Unreasonable Accommodation. Minorities rule. Majorities are subjugated. You dare call this a republic? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-21 07:44|| 2016-09-21 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 What about a restaurant that offers peanuts? Are they breaking the law because not everybody can eat them?

Stop it, just stop it.

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-21 08:24|| 2016-09-21 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Once again, the government tries to save us from ourselves and turns into a tyranny.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-09-21 08:50|| 2016-09-21 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait. Not being able to comprehend a class means it's not accessible, and therefore verboten?

There goes every upper-level STEM course in the world.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-09-21 09:07|| 2016-09-21 09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Look at the bright side; these course are not really free, as it took somebody time to create and also running time, internet up time; etc. taking them down should reduce costs and in theory, save Californians some bux, so they can capture cow farts.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2016-09-21 15:08|| 2016-09-21 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Somebody from an online pay university slip some money to some politician to see this happen?

Posted by 3dc 2016-09-21 16:28|| 2016-09-21 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Bingo, 3dc

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-21 16:30|| 2016-09-21 16:30|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't have my real computer here, I hope I'll be able to check that there's nothing I want there before it's taken down.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-21 17:00|| 2016-09-21 17:00|| Front Page Top

#10 I think in my Big Damn Online Course Directory I have some Berkeley lectures from a SICP based course.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-09-21 17:02|| 2016-09-21 17:02|| Front Page Top

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