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Apparently most of society gains 20,000 free lectures on YouTube. In all seriousness, you're arguing a false position because nobody is arguing we live in a so
by steego 10y ago
Apparently most of society gains 20,000 free lectures on YouTube.
In all seriousness, you're arguing a false position because nobody is arguing we live in a society of optional laws. I think most people are lamenting the consequences of this particular law for this particular circumstance.
Both sides have legitimate grievances. Hearing impaired people should have access to free lectures if a university is offering them. It puts hearing impaired students at a disadvantage when they don't have access to the same resources as hearing impaired. On the other hand, we want to live in a world where it's not prohibitively expensive to post lectures that are accessible to everybody.
So, what do we do?
Can we solve this problem so both parties have good solutions? Could we raise money on Kickstarter and post the transcription jobs on Amazon's Mechanical Turk? Is this a good opportunity to start a voice recognition moonshot effort where schools can compete to transcribe audio for esoteric subjects?
- adewinter 10y agoYep, you're absolutely right that both sides have grievances. But nobody is arguing we live in a society of optional laws Reading some of the comments here... I'm not quite sure that's true (thus my comment). I'm trying to point out that a) This situation is not crazy, at all. It's an extension of how our society and the law works. b) Pretending that it's okay to ignore a law because the majority are not affected is short sighted. Yep, sometimes it's hard/expensive to abide by laws catered towards minorities. Tough shit. That's exactly the reason the law exists in the first place, because it's too expensive for society to do the right thing by default.