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Ask HN: Old thread – Video Lectures pulled for lack of Subtitles
I'm looking for an old front page HN discussion, quite popular at the time, about some US university that was admonished (sued?) for having auto-subtitled videos on YouTube, a breach of accessibility, and ended up pulling all content, at least temporarily.
The entity behind the push used a video of Lady Gaga visiting campus as an example of the auto-subtitler fumbling its job.
- gfd 4y agoI know it happened to stanford's cs231n but also vaguely recall it happening to berkeley so I don't know which you're referring to: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/727618058471112704 https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/727618058471112704 Can probably search that tweet to find relevant threads EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519761
- romanhn 4y agoSort of sounds like Berkeley pulling all lecture recordings due to the lack of subtitles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856 (there are a few threads covering this, though)
- romanhn 4y agoLooks like this might be the thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798. Harvard and MIT sued, the Gaga example is mentioned. As an aside, I did not realize so many universities have been impacted. What a sad state of affairs.
- vmilner 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798 Is about Harvard and MIT being sued in 2015.