PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming

CousinLarry writes "Online 'university' Trinity Southern University (Google cache of disabled site homepage) has been sued by the state of Pennsylvania." Besides spamming, this self-described school has, as another reader points out, "awarded an MBA to a cat owned by an undercover Pennsylvania deputy attorney general." I bet my cat could get a PhD.

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Re:What happens when you don't force accreditation

[justin_speers]

So you're suggesting we outlaw all private universities?

Exactly how did capitalism encourage this sort of behavior? Do you even know what capitalism is?

In a "Godless socialised education" system, there's no incentive to succeed whatsoever. When public schools do bad, they just get more money, and their "customers" have no choice. They are forced to go to them. Monopolies are bad, especially when the Government has them.

Anti-capitalists like the poster above are so quick to scream fire every time something fails that isn't run by the Government.

Here's how it is in the real world: This school scammed people, and now they'll pay the price. Their behavior is NOT being rewarded, either in profits or the whole staying out of prison thing. If capitalism means being greedy and earning money, then the people running this school are bad capitalists. I'm pretty sure they won't be making much money as a direct result of their actions.

The same thing happened to Enron. They did dumb stuff, now they're out of business. The market fixed the behavior. That's what happened here. Simply because A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL school has acted unethically and illegally random zealouts like you are going to start screaming for more Government intervention.

I would still take a mediocre private education over the best our Government can offer, thanks.

Capitalism isn't utopia, but socialism is so much farther from utopia it isn't funny. Taking random and fairly isolated incidents like this and citing them as an example of the failures of capitalism is borderline retarded. Especially seeing as how the U.S. is regulating more and more of our daily lives every day. We're hardly capitalist over here anymore. State capitalism would be a better phrase.

accreditedness

[slothman32]

Why should a school have to be accredited? Doesn't that just mean some people I have never heard of or didn't elect decided that a school is elite enough to join the other schools? Why should I care what "critics" think? If I want to learn then I should get to pick. I know I put no faith in award like Academy(TM) or otherwise. The only award or accretion I care about is my own.
Now if a school is bad or spams as this one seems to be then that is different. But it is still a university just not one you agree with. It's like the "Time Cube" except not stupid.