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

[derek at ihtfp.com (Derek Atkins)]

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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