<story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiot_stick</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;How is society improved by taking them down?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I agree with you.  I think most others do as well.&lt;p&gt;The problem is, we can look at a case like this and say, &amp;quot;Obviously we shouldn&amp;#x27;t lose access to this.&amp;quot;  Then there&amp;#x27;s a next time, and a next time, and a next time.  And eventually the deaf are at a measurable informational disadvantage to those who &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; hear.  That&amp;#x27;s why these laws exist.&lt;p&gt;So, everyone should take a step back and figure out a reasonable solution.  I hope that&amp;#x27;s the reason for the judgment.</text></item><item><author>bmcusick</author><text>While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. It&amp;#x27;s crazy that the law put UC Berkeley in the position of having to choose between bearing the expense of close-captioning all these videos, and taking them down.&lt;p&gt;How is society improved by taking them down?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naasking</author><text>&amp;gt; Then there&amp;#x27;s a next time, and a next time, and a next time. And eventually the deaf are at a measurable informational disadvantage to those who can hear. That&amp;#x27;s why these laws exist.&lt;p&gt;While I can sympathize, I&amp;#x27;m not sure holding back the progress of an entire society just to not disadvantage a subset of it is as reasonable as you seem to think. I agree that a better solution would be ideal though.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps they should just fund a machine learning program for closed captioning, instead of punishing people who are advancing social interests.</text></comment>
<story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiot_stick</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;How is society improved by taking them down?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I agree with you.  I think most others do as well.&lt;p&gt;The problem is, we can look at a case like this and say, &amp;quot;Obviously we shouldn&amp;#x27;t lose access to this.&amp;quot;  Then there&amp;#x27;s a next time, and a next time, and a next time.  And eventually the deaf are at a measurable informational disadvantage to those who &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; hear.  That&amp;#x27;s why these laws exist.&lt;p&gt;So, everyone should take a step back and figure out a reasonable solution.  I hope that&amp;#x27;s the reason for the judgment.</text></item><item><author>bmcusick</author><text>While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. It&amp;#x27;s crazy that the law put UC Berkeley in the position of having to choose between bearing the expense of close-captioning all these videos, and taking them down.&lt;p&gt;How is society improved by taking them down?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weddpros</author><text>Next: how will they make their content easy enough to grasp for the guy with an IQ of 60? He&amp;#x27;s disabled too, after all...&lt;p&gt;...says the guy who&amp;#x27;s partially blind after a stroke&lt;p&gt;If it feels insane, it&amp;#x27;s because it is insane</text></comment>