So this is "the British way" even though it's being done at Yale, because you have one anecdote about something semi-similar happening at a university in the UK

So this is "the British way" even though it's being done at Yale, because you have one anecdote about something semi-similar happening at a university in the UK? (Only semi-similar, because I think you can make a better case for shutting down a dating site using university IT facilities than for shutting down a course-info site not using university IT facilities.)