I’m no expert, but I doubt that that’s as much of an issue as it sounds. My understanding is that the Berkeley thing was based on a DoJ finding, not an actual lawsuit. If it were a lawsuit, then it would serve as precedent (at least until overturned by a higher court, which is usually how such stupidity would be fixed). But as a DoJ finding, I believe it’s much less binding—a future DoJ (i.e. the DoJ we have now) can just stop issuing such dumb orders. Given the current position of the political see-saw, that’s exactly what I’d expect—this is not the particular brand of stupidity one expects under a nominally-Republican administration.
Even setting aside my guesses on that front, legal problems about making videos publicly available are definitely the sort of thing one can worry about later. The ADA definitely doesn’t ban just pressing the record button.
I’m no expert, but I doubt that that’s as much of an issue as it sounds. My understanding is that the Berkeley thing was based on a DoJ finding, not an actual lawsuit. If it were a lawsuit, then it would serve as precedent (at least until overturned by a higher court, which is usually how such stupidity would be fixed). But as a DoJ finding, I believe it’s much less binding—a future DoJ (i.e. the DoJ we have now) can just stop issuing such dumb orders. Given the current position of the political see-saw, that’s exactly what I’d expect—this is not the particular brand of stupidity one expects under a nominally-Republican administration.
Even setting aside my guesses on that front, legal problems about making videos publicly available are definitely the sort of thing one can worry about later. The ADA definitely doesn’t ban just pressing the record button.
Yeah, this seems pretty fair. Edited the top-level comment.