Berkeley will remove 20,000 free educational videos to comply with DOJ ruling after deaf activists filed a complaint against the university for failing to provide closed captions. Now these videos will only be accessible to enrolled Berkeley students instead of the general public.

Did you read the comment he said was "spot on"? That is really insulting to deaf people and people with disabilities. I worked in the disability field for a bunch of years.

Yes, of course there are people abusing the ADA laws with lawsuits. But it 100% is a tiny percent of people with disabilities, and it has nothing to do with deaf people. Usually it's people in wheel chairs doing this, but again a tiny fraction of a percent are doing this.

your tactic of misrepresentation and righteous indignation does not further the discussion in any useful way.

This is not true. Sarcasm or satire has a place in discussion.

Read jswarme's post again. He works preventing business from getting scammed and getting lawsuits related to the ADA. So he is only seeing disabled people in this light - the people trying to scam businesses. I come from working in a major city with people with all types of disabilities.

His argument is like an insurance company professional saying people who have car insurance are frauds. It's ludicrous. Yes, people scam insurance companies. But most people with car insurance don't do this.

Yes, people in wheel chairs scam businesses. But, of course, almost no in the disabled population has anything to do with that.

The deaf people who sued were very much not doing this for money. They probably just wanted to be able to access these videos. And you can bet they did not expect the university to make the videos inaccessible to everyone.

Of course it's terrible no one can access them now. But to equate the deaf people with wheel chair scammers doesn't make any sense at all. But then again - that is his major interaction with disabled people: his job every day is to consult businesses to protect against disabled scammers.

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