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Students of Roskilde University ("RUC") and University of Copenhagen are denied access to library text unless they support CloudFlare

The libraries have closed and locked students out of access to physical books as a measure to mitigate coronavirus. A large portion of books available electronically are kept in the walled-garden of CloudFlare. This means Tor users and students who ethically oppose CloudFlare are being denied access to educational resources needed for research.

Education Technology @lemmy.ml
rucrefugee @lemmy.ml

Roskilde University ("RUC") pushes Microsoft Teams, MS Skype, & Facebook onto students during coronavirus

Students of RUC (a public school) are essentially forced to patronize Microsoft and support surveillance capitalism as a consequence. Students have always been forced to use MS email services through Outlook, and there has been peer pressure on students to use MS Office products for collaboration which could be fought and avoided. But now students are being excluded from lectures -- the most essential component of education -- if they do not execute non-free Microsoft software on their own computers.

Updates about Coronavirus are being sent to students using Facebook.

This letter was sent to RUC students:

All of the information below can also be found on https://intra.ruc.dk/nc/en/students/student-hub/ and https://ruc.dk/en/corona-virus-covid19

Dear students, Roskilde University has decided to carry out (almost) all teaching activities as distance learning. In this