Re: Encrypted Media proposal (was RE: ISSUE-179: av_param - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals) from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-02-24 (public-html@w3.org from February 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:46:50 -0800
To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCMxn-NKfuPxpMK_yOAuqyq6xEt0qtYmTsipV49gNQXmg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> It is unethical for us to make and use technologies that are intentionally
>> inaccessible, whether that be preventing deaf users from knowing what is
>> being said in a movie production of Hamlet, or preventing English
>> professors from critiquing parts of that same movie.
>
> Baloney.

Which part is baloney?  The part where deaf people get to enjoy
Hamlet, or the part where English professors get to critique it?

~TJ

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