Posted on 03/11/2017 6:49:15 PM PST by grundle
This is the YouTube channel for University of California, Berkeley: https://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley/videos
It has (or used to have) 13,800 hours of free educational content.
On August 30, 2016, the Justice Department sent this letter to the school, which criticized the videos for not being closed captioned, and for not having audio descriptions of content that was visible on chalkboards.
The school responded by issuing a statement which said it might have to remove the videos because of this. Specifically, the school’s statement said:
“… we might not be able to continue to provide free public content under the conditions laid out by the Department of Justice to the extent we have in the past.”
“In many cases the requirements proposed by the department would require the university to implement extremely expensive measures to continue to make these resources available to the public for free…”
The same letter from the Justice Department also ordered the school to pay “compensatory damages” to deaf people because these free educational videos were not closed captioned.
However, the Justice Department did not explain how it was possible for the school to pay “compensatory damages” for something that the school had given away for free.
So now, here we are in March 2017. Donald Trump has been president for well over a month. And now the Justice Department is enforcing Obama’s order for UC Berkeley to remove the videos.
As President, Trump could have reversed this order, just as Obama, early in his presidency, had reversed a Bush action regarding the New Black Panther Party. (In May 2009, the Obama administration dismissed charges that had been filed by the Bush administration against members of the New Black Panther Party who had been videotaped intimidating voters and brandishing a police-style baton at a Philadelphia polling station during the November 2008 election. In August 2009, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights demanded that the Justice Department explain why it dismissed the charges. In July 2010, J. Christian Adams, a former lawyer for the Justice Department, testified before the Commission on Civil Rights that the case was dropped because the Justice Department did not want to protect the civil rights of white people.)
But Trump did not reverse this order. Instead, he went along with it.
So once again, here’s another reason why I’m glad I voted for Gary Johnson in the 2016 Presidential election.
Ridiculous statement
So once again, here’s another reason why I’m glad I voted for Gary Johnson in the 2016 Presidential election.
You didn’t vote for Johnson. You voted for Hillary Criminal and her Constitution destroying SCOTUS. You keep good company, FRiend.
This article assumes that President Trump is aware of this. He’s just barely getting his cabinet in and I’m not sure he knows the minutia. We’re being played by the press.
Blame Congress and the FCC for enacting such rules.
If Trump just starts ignoring enforcement of laws he does not like, he would become no better than Obama was.
Gary Johnson. One toke over the line, sweet Jesus...
Let 0’s stupid rain down on his people!
I think it’s Bush fault.
More unintended consequences of the liberal mind (regulations).
It is Bush’s fault - George H W Bush for signing the American with Disabilities Act in 1990.
Bingo
For years I have been pointing out that this Paultard blog pimp is no friend to FreeRepublic or the Conservative cause.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
I agree with that statement.
Congress have been a buncha total slackers for decades.
Both closed captioning and translation of even hand written words into audio can be done inexpensively — even for free. This is UC Berkley anti-Trump garbage.
I don't recall President Trump campaigning on the need to stop U.C. Berkeley from providing educational videos unless they were closed captioned.
Maybe someone at the DOJ could solve this problem with a thirty second phone call: "Hello, Berkeley? This is the Department of Justice. We won't hassle you about the videos. OK? Thanks."
There is no need to waste Trump's time with this.
Your posts have always been “eye-rolling”.
Gary Johnson?.....Lol
Stop being a douche-bag
I voted for him based on this SPECIFIC single issue at this SPECIFIC college.
Who didn’t?
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Did they send a similar letter to Salman Kahn?
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No, the problem is with the liberal busybodies who infest ALL of the Federal Government and distort and corrupt every piece of legislation passed & signed.
George Washington could have signed a Bill advocating Apple Pie and Motherhood and after the current (1990 to Present) crop of Federal bureaucrats finished with the implementation, the addition of 1/2 cup arsenic to all Apple Pies would be mandated and Motherhood would be as described in "Heather has Two Mommies" (or "Bruce, Jon and Marc").
Please give your BDS a rest.
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