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Not mandatory by law perhaps, but how much power did e.g. a single teacher that wanted to teach Blender have to go around this policy? If almost every school us
by AinderS 4y ago
Not mandatory by law perhaps, but how much power did e.g. a single teacher that wanted to teach Blender have to go around this policy? If almost every school uses the same firewall, and only software with lobbyists behind it gets whitelisted, that can be just as effective at suppressing free software as banning the teaching of Blender by law.
Even more effective, actually. A law is out in the open, plainly stating its function, easy to point to and vote to change it. But this kind of amorphous, corrupt, entrenched bureaucracy is much harder to uproot, or even identify.
- shreyshnaccount 4y agonot American, but reading about this feels like yall came up with a system to feel good about doing bad things without admitting you were doing bad things. feels very living in denial-y
- cyanydeez 4y agoBasically, if a shareholder somewhere benefits, _it must be a good thing_. Multiply by market share to determine tie breakers.
- shreyshnaccount 4y agothats just so many words for "greed is better". see, bad thing, dressed up as good thing.
- anonomousename 4y agoNot nearly every school used this. Also - at least for my highschool- teachers had unrestricted intetnet, and could grant it to students. For my highschool journalism class, students in the class were granted unrestricted internet for me example. I don't think letting blender through would be too hard.