Proctorio – Unis as custodians
Martin Weller,
The Ed Techie,
Apr 28, 2021
I think that the intent behind this article is to note that Ian Linkletter is facing new and greater expenses in his legal fight against Proctorio, and institutions of higher education should play a greater role in his defense - if they can't actually contribute to his legal fund, they should at the very least, says Martin Weller, be boycotting their product. With this I agree (and am making an additional contribution today). But Weller couches this all in the language of universities being the 'custodians' of certain values in society, for example, "freedom of legitimate academic criticism." If they are indeed custodians, then I think they're very poor custodians, being as they are institutions who protect these freedoms only for a certain (privileged) class of people (which is how and why we see Linkletter struggling to defend himself).
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