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I guess I'm missing some nuances you're seeing in that press release, but it seems pretty innocuous. Certainly don't see any evidence of those thugs you mention, just some people concerned about deaf Americans not having their civil rights protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

And I'll take that bet: In 3 years, every video on the Harvard and M.I.T. websites will be captioned.

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You can only take my bet (and I used 3 years for symmetry, make it more like 1-8), if you take the whole thing, which includes there being precious few of those nicely captioned videos on MIT websites and Youtube channels.

But, yeah, every video you will be able find on an accessible to the outside of MIT website will be perfect. Yea!

BTW, MIT has rather nicely developed fine grained control over what can and can't be seen by outsiders, all this sort of thing developed for Project Athena starting back in the '80s.

I will take that bet, if you explain the odds you are offering.

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