>A few years ago, an adjunct professor and disability-rights activist named Stacy Nowak went to take a look at a college course offered online by the University of California, Berkeley. >The course was called "Journalism for Social Change." Nowak is deaf. >She has no connection to UC Berkeley; she teaches art at Gallaudet University. But she was displeased with the quality of the closed captioning the university provided on the course's video. >Nowak, who declined to be interviewed for this article, got hold of the National Association of the Deaf, which she's a member of. In doing so she set in motion a train of events that will come to a head on March 15. >The organization filed a complaint with DoJ on behalf of Nowak and a Gallaudet colleague as "aggrieved individuals." >Among the videos, the intrepid DoJ investigators discovered some without captions, thus discriminating against members of the general public who are deaf. Some "contain[ed] text [that] had poor color contrast," thus discriminating against Americans with visual impairments. Others contained graphs and charts in which "information was sometimes conveyed using one color alone," thus discriminating against the color-blind. >Last week Vice Chancellor Cathy Koshland announced that beginning March 15, Berkeley's vast library of online courses would no longer be publicly available.
Ok, what treasonous shit are they trying to burry in those videos?
Connor Murphy
like berkeley wasnt hard as shit to bend over backwards for these minorities.
Isaiah Jackson
Read the post. If blind people can't see the videos blind people will try to make it so no one can.
David Morales
No that is the official narrative; What is the real reason...
Matthew Lee
This is insane.
Gavin Fisher
KEK
Angel Robinson
...
John Hughes
Wow I hate Berkeley but couldn't they just pay a settlement instead? They really ought to.
Zachary Cooper
They accidentally taped over old tapes with Hillary fucking kids and Obama being ass fucked by Michele while Biden is pissing on Merkel who is shitting on the pope. Obviously.
Eli Diaz
They should bankrupt themselves. Y'know, for progress and shit.
Brandon Thomas
Normally I'd be outraged but it's Berkeley so fuck them.
Sebastian Diaz
Having classes for social change is like having classes on ripping off rich people at your mansion.
Kevin Gonzalez
>Pay a settlement A settlement for what? Just say "Oh, I guess that slipped under our radar. We'll fix it." If that's not good enough then it's time to start hanging people.
Joseph James
You want a quality education goy? You gotta pay for it first. I mean how does it benefit us to provide this material for free? Imagine if the people watching these videos had nefarious purposes for learning such things, especially the computer science portions.
Jonathan Parker
Couldn't they just copy the tapes and do some editing to produce more cripple-friendly versions that could be kept along with the originals in case anybody has trouble following along with them?
No? Fuck it then, burn the digital books.
Sebastian Hill
Some download link for all of them?
Julian Sullivan
The funny thing is that americans pays dozens of thousands of dollars for this Who's the cucked
Jaxson Jackson
...Good?....Bad?....
Caleb Young
rare good-quality leafpost
Carter Long
Why would they pay a settlement for providing free content?
You sound like a commie.
David Sullivan
Let me off the ride please. I can't take this.
Austin Cox
I've said it before, deaf people are assholes. My cousin is deaf and she's a total cunt.
Nathaniel Thomas
It'd be a shame if somebody saved all those lectures and posted them as a torrent
Ethan Smith
I don't know who's jewing who in this instance.
It's clearly petty for Berkeley to remove all that content, but at the same time it was likely filled with SJW indoctrination and it's probably better it's gone.
Grayson Campbell
"""Progressive"""
Henry Lopez
DAMN SHAME
Jayden Johnson
This. Their far reaching privilege has gone on for far too long, they must be dissolved in order to make amends for all that educational privilege that they've oppressed so many with for decades.
#UCBprivilege
Justin Clark
They won't understand it until you sign it to them.
Levi Morgan
I'm really starting to reach my threshold for this nonsense.
I think it's pretty cool for a college to put tons of lectures online for free. They get no benefit, just aid in the sharing of knowledge.
In spite of that, they are called "discriminatory" because they didn't spend tons of resources factoring in every possible handicap in existance.
Why is this worldview of being "aggrieved" catered to? It's like if you went to give food to homeless shelters, and get sued because you don't bring halal or kosher options.
Net result, generous actions are stopped because it's just not worth the headache.
What universe have I crashed in now, fucking quality leafposting?
Henry Wood
why not just shut down the whole university? they're clearly nazi alt right trumpbrapppps
Blake Butler
it would be a shame if she got some blowback from all of this. hope she is safe
Daniel Gray
Cripple genocide, when?
I swear, SJWs are doing their best to make people absolutely hate the people they claim to be protecting or speaking for. Why can't they understand that?
Justin Wilson
just look through harvards online stuff. you can say you went to harvard.
Jaxon Cox
I have a feeling any criticisms directed towards her would probably fall on deaf ears.
Robert Garcia
The cost to change all the videos will be huge, not to mention all the time and human resources they will need. The college probably doesn't gain anything from letting the videos be public so making them private is the only sensible option.
Zachary Ramirez
Plebbit.goy/datahoarder should have most of it, it not all.
Samuel Smith
Poor doggo
Xavier Ross
The case was probably brought against them by someone who was thinking they were going to cash in on a I spilled hot coffee on my lap tier plaintiff. Look into their history and they've probably tried to make money by pretending to be a victim.
Robert Thomas
>If I can't have it, no one else can. Thoughts?
Well that's not what this is about is it. It's not grandstanding, it's just an economic reality.
If you're mandated to provide captions and it's going to cost a fortune you pull the programming instead. It's a sensible business decision.
If you want to be upset about something, be upset that there's no provisions or exceptions in this law that allows large data collections to be exempt.
Captioning takes a lot of time, trained typists will require something like twice the amount of time as the time being covered.
20 000 lecture videos, let's say it's just 30 minutes instead of 1 hour or beyond, that's 10 000 hours of work, 416 full days of work.
If they had 15 bucks (minwage in California?) it's 300 000 dollars assuming they need double the time to caption. But since it's usually not that efficient and they might need to be paid more than that, something like 600 000 - 1 million is more in the ballpark. Best guesstimate.
Gavin Adams
The equality liberals want.
Liam Ross
>disability-rights activist
Well, at least they're being honest that being born non-white may as well be a disability.
Sebastian Campbell
I love it when liberal do-goodery fucks over worthwhile projects.
Jaxson Adams
Why? It's not like this actually will wake anyone up? There are probably liberals out in Cali right now who think this is a good thing.
Liam Smith
Nth post best post
Brandon Davis
kek
For those interested it seems a lot of it is in archive.org if you search UC Berkley
Nathaniel Sanchez
NO WIKE FWEE COWWIGE COWSE
Evan Robinson
>Globalists finally realising that giving access to their sources makes peps critically reflect about them SHUT IT DOWN. bit to late I guess
Thomas Foster
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Robert Gomez
There are bound to be normal people who will be pissed off by this.
Chase Carter
Why ?
Logan Torres
...
Alexander Fisher
Actually they had a ton of free computer science lectures up online. It's a real shame.
Jack Johnson
>"information was sometimes conveyed using one color alone," thus discriminating against the color-blind What? If it was conveyed using only one colour, then it doesn't matter whatsoever whether you are colourblind, or which colour is used, right?
It is so irritating when schools remove online courseware, though, especially since it is never for a good reason. I'm still upset over MIT and Lewin, since they deleted arguably the best physics lectures on the internet, and only because Lewin was, at worst, a perverted old man.
If the lectures themselves are of low quality, then fine, delete them. If they are good lectures, instead of removing them all, just update the closed captions for one video at a time, so that the knowledge is always accessible (what the main goal of a university should be, anyways).
Caleb Hernandez
>Stacy Nowak most /r9k/ name ever
Kevin Cook
>1964 >All the protesters are wearing business suits, the women in modest dresses >2017 >All the protesters are wearing fucking masks, hoodies, gang clothing, or are dressed like complete sluts
Liam Smith
Defund that commie shithole already. Geez.
Adrian Foster
Stop taking off Ben Garrision's name.
Benjamin Myers
Kill yourself
Jason Evans
You did good, user. You get Not Last.
Lucas Wilson
So let the polarisation continue. The extreme progressive left are not interested in compromise. They will not let you hold onto your culture or values in exchange for you accepting yet another protected class. They are bigots and rabid dogs. The sooner they get violent the better.
Robert Sanders
fuck berkeley
Julian Hughes
At this point, the Lawrence Hall of Science, Boalt Hall, and all other STEM departments should secede from UC Berkeley and form their own separate college and let the rest of the school wallow into obscurity.
Daniel Clark
The handicapable are out of control!
Nicholas Hughes
Lol. This bitch fucked every community college student that looks at their lectures to learn various stem lower division classes when their professor sucks dick.
Hopefully MIT doesn't follow suit.
Colton Carter
Catered too? because (((they))) can use it to censor whatever goes against them by paying litards to call it offensive. sjw offend culture is just a tool by the elites to take something from the people.
look at the protests for 15$ an hour I honestly believe these people were paid to go protest knowing acting like a fool would just piss everyone off so when big corps like McDonalds start automating everything and firing their staff,, the people working won't get one once of sympathy. no sympathy = no backlash.
offended culture is control now that they are automating and no one cares...where did all the protesters go.. shouldn't they be protesting more?
Dylan Edwards
think for yourself, faggot
Brayden Gonzalez
We should just kill the dumb cunt and move on.
David Ross
>i don't go to this school but i have a problem with their online content >better gripe to people who have nothing to do with the school as well >who will in turn gripe to the school about how it's a rights violation >and the school, rather than updating the material, is just going to "Ctrl+A, Del" the whole mess and call it a day
man i wish i could make nachos with as many layers as there are layers of retardation here
Jacob Price
So people who scream muh feels will stop complaining because they have enough shit to deal with on campus?
Daniel Hernandez
Have you seen the disability standards for the web? They're completely unachievable. There's not enough money or time that could make UC Berkeley compliant.
Hudson Murphy
The subversive move would be to sue based on income/academic discrimination. We have to break this case with identity politics.
Xavier Martin
Liberalism in a nutshell. Shut it down.
Tyler Thompson
There's no law protecting the right of poor people getting free shit.
Poor people getting free shit are some of the most ungrateful bastards there are.
Deaf woman gets free !FREE! online course.
Sues.
Ryder Rivera
Disabled people know they can go around acting like twats cause people are reluctant to say anything towards them. The BBC once made a documentary of some guy with an elephant-man face who was seeking justice after a mean message was left under one of his YouTube videos. He was campaigning for 'ableist' comments to be banned online and a change in society's attitudes which make people see those with deformed faces as unattractive.
Matthew Lee
Thank youl.
Christian Jones
(((Nowak, Koshland ))) Mission: destroy the social fabric of America, disintegrate the society, move to China en mass like fucking lemmings clutching shekels
Leo Rodriguez
Hey, I completely agree with everything you said. I think that the school made the correct decision. All i'm upset about is this law in its current state, which is able to threaten such a great trove of free, top class information. What happens next? I also made the thread because of the irony of the situation lol
Aaron Smith
>It's clearly petty for Berkeley to remove all that content you are clearly retarded. They did it for legal reasons.
Luke Bailey
Please tell me that the people who complained about free lectures are going to die a miserable death. Fucking entitled pieces of shit. Society coddles disabled people way too hard and in cases like these others suffer from it.
this is worse than the coffee one, since that lady ended up getting 3rd degree burns and just wanted her medical bills to be paid for. Which McDonald's fought against originally.
Hudson Murphy
>Day of the unlit anechoic stairwell when? You mother fucker,,, made my morning with that one
Angel Cruz
you should be upset that beurocrats go after free stuff that is FREE as in provided to people for FREE and are forced to take it down and given i fine because the FREEEEEE stuff wasnt "inclusive" enough.
John Diaz
>If you're mandated to provide captions The problem is with being mandated to, not with pulling them. Pulling them is just the consequence that makes the thing relevant.
Wyatt Brown
Perfect.
Adam Scott
>March 15th
Does anybody here know how to read?
Cameron Williams
>While Berkeley open-sourced the lectures to “maximize the accessibility of free, online content” to the public, two employees of another university brought a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act to demand all resources be either transcribed or taken down altogether.
All we need to know.
Carson Collins
Yea, why?
Jace Bailey
>"information was sometimes conveyed using one color alone," thus discriminating against the color-blind. >one color >color blind Do they even know what color blindness is?