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There's a pandemic, schools and professors try what they can to keep the courses running and not ruin their students' year, and your reaction is "sue them"?
by riquito 7y ago
There's a pandemic, schools and professors try what they can to keep the courses running and not ruin their students' year, and your reaction is "sue them"?
- sneak 7y agoThey’re pulling a bait and switch. There are video technologies they can license so that they can keep things running without forcing students into having to enter into abusive third party agreements. They can hire people to set up simple first-party HLS streaming systems—it can be done in a day. There are tons of non-abusive alternatives. Zoom makes malware. Can you imagine being given the option by a university to whom you have already paid tens of thousands of dollars: “install this malware or you don’t get to come to class”? You could say the same about Amazon and their backlash against workers. “There’s a pandemic, and this company is doing what it can to keep the supplies moving, and your reaction is “sue them”?” Yes, that is the appropriate reaction if they break the law. A pandemic does not justify abusive, coercive behavior. If anything, it makes it more abusive.
- izacus 7y agoPandemic really shouldn't be an excuse to just sell out students to any party that used more marketing money. There's a reason why (at least in this part of the world) the educational products receive additional scrutiny and need to comply to additional privacy and security directives.