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Coursera has just suspended access to Russian language courses
- retrocoder 5y agoOh dear, here we go... corporation jumping into the bandwagon without much thought as usual!
- jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 5y agoRussian language courses? Seriously? Completely ridiculous.
- RikNieu 5y agoThis is insane. Really. Banning languages now? Are we cancelling cultures next?
- peanut_worm 5y agoisnt that discrimination? lots of russian speakers dont live in russia
- sschueller 5y agoThe absolute worst thing to do is to kill dialog between you and your enemies. It lets you to paint this picture of a boogie man and allows you to commit the most hanous of crimes because you no longer see them as human.
- BarbaPeru 5y agoAbsolutely ridiculous.
- unhammer 5y agoMany Ukranians understand Russian. Say you had already started learning a little Russian before, now you'd like to brush up on it for volunteering or helping out in some way, but you're not allowed to? https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-response-to-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-ukraine/ https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-response-to-the-humanitar... is the blog post – it makes sense to suspend business, but if they actually wanted to help, they could make the content freely available.
- cafard 5y agoWonderful. Back to 1917.