LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Thu Mar 16 21:07:02 PDT 2017


On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:44:14AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
> From: Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>
> On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> >> https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
> >> Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000
> >> college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the
> >> videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another
> >> university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

> >This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably
> >not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.
>
> In a sense, true.  Except that I don't think ANYONE could have
> anticipated this result, when the ADA was enacted.  This is the kind
> of insane PC nonsense that we all should resist.

Jim please! "All the (((politicians))) are just misunderstood, well
meaning, good intention folk, trying their best to create a better
world.  Daffodils and rainbows -will- save the world."

Most politicians never even read the acts they vote on, except to ensure
their pet pork barrel is included in clear and unambiguous terms, and
besides "more legislation is always better", of course.


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