Ask HN: Old thread – Video Lectures pulled for lack of Subtitles

9 points by emiliobumachar 3y ago ↗ HN

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.

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gfd 3y ago ↗

I 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

Can probably search that tweet to find relevant threads

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519761

romanhn 3y ago ↗

Sort of sounds like Berkeley pulling all lecture recordings due to the lack of subtitles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856 (there are a few threads covering this, though)

romanhn 3y ago ↗

Looks like this might be the thread - 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 3y ago ↗

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798

Is about Harvard and MIT being sued in 2015.