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Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions in violation of the ADA

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Re: Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions in violation of the ADA

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Post by breakingcups »

Does anyone with more experience with this law know whether the ADA would apply to all video content on a website or just a subset?

Otherwise YouTube would also have a huge problem. Their auto-generated CC's are laughable most of the time.

Re: Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions in violation of the ADA

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Post by logicchains »

iso1210 wrote: post #17
threatofrain wrote: post #6

If a company doesn't have the kind of technology to effectively transcribe their large volume of videos and the daily rate of uploads, then must they simply start taking down videos? If a company started hiring inhouse to develop such tech, how long would it take?

Yes, just like if a company doesn't have the technology to keep its workers safe, it must stop putting them at risk

I don't see the similarity. If we go from blind people suffering from not having access to the audio transcription, to everybody suffering from not having access to either the audio or video (because all the videos were taken down), isn't that a lose-lose for everybody? In worker protection at least the workers win from having more safety.

Re: Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions in violation of the ADA

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Post by freddie_mercury »

tw1010 wrote: post #11

Curious: why isn't all porn sites sued for this? I don't quite get why they're only going after PH? Is it because it's harder to win a case against 1000 websites? Is it because it's more overhead to go after multiple sites and they expect the biggest return on investment only going after the biggest one? Anyone smarter than me who has a take?

The very first sentence says,

"A deaf man has sued Pornhub and other pornographic websites"

You could always try reading an article to see if it answers questions you have based on skimming a headline.

Re: Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions in violation of the ADA

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Post by qwerty456127 »

This is funny (who cares about what do they speak in porn, really? I know some people learn German just to understand that but that's hardly essential for the experience) but there have been more alike case which were sad: universities removing (!) freely-available lecture videos as there were no subtitles (even those published on YouTube, I don't know why generated subtitles wouldn't qualify).

Re: Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions in violation of the ADA

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Post by chrxr »

Relevant precedent: Harvard recently settled with National Association of the Deaf, resulting in all videos made publically available after Dec 2019 requiring captions, and a required 5 day turnaround for captioning of older videos. https://dredf.org/2019/11/27/landmark-settlement-with-harvar...

Re: Deaf man sues Pornhub over lack of closed captions in violation of the ADA

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Post by qwerty456127 »

buboard wrote: post #13
bilekas wrote: post #9

How will he ever know if the new tennant ever got the plumbing fixed ! This is just pure discrimination. :)

spoiler alert they never do.

Perhaps they do but we can't see that because PornHub doesn't have the full movies. E.g. I've actually done both the jobs once when I was a [real] cable worker.
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