[ale] (OT) Minnesota bans Coursera: State takes bold stand against free education.

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Fri Oct 19 12:25:59 EDT 2012


States are greedy.

Apparently their issue is that Coursera isn't "registered" and isn't
paying the state fees associated with said registration.  It almost sounds
like something Georgia would do!

-derek

On Fri, October 19, 2012 12:18 pm, Jim Kinney wrote:
> the world is screwy.
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
>> I am currently taking a class on this site as is Erica. Mine is a logic
>> course from Stanford; hers is programming and I think also from
>> Stanford.
>>
>> What is the problem with our world? Now we can make free services
>> illegal
>> too? What the hell happened to criminal activities having to cause harm
>> to
>> person or property?
>>
>>
>> http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/minnesota_bans_coursera_state_takes_bold_stand_against_free_education.html
>>
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