Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This wraps up coverage of the lawsuit which we started in these pages some five years ago. "Proctorio submitted a Consent Dismissal Order (CDO) to dismiss the entire lawsuit." The injunction remains, but as Ian Linkletter describes, it doesn't prevent him from doing anything he actually wants to do, like link to public videos, or openly criticize Proctorio. "It cost my life savings ten times over," writes Linkletter, "and I am eternally grateful to the thousands of you from GoFundMe and the Association of Administrative and Professional Staff of UBC for funding my defence after I no longer could." 

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