Careful What You Say

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Are you actually saying that schools like Phoenix, Capella, CCU, Nova, etc. started off as scam operations comparable to SRU and, then, became respectable by making huge payments to politicians, lobbies, etc., in the same way that SRU bribed Liberian politicians? That the only difference between these schools and SRU is that the SRU scam artists didn't stretch their bribing far and wide enough, and that if they had been smart enough to do that, SRU would be now well on its way to becoming a legitimate and even respectable school?

University of Phoenix has been exposed as a boiler room scam farm; it has been found guilty in court of fraud at various levels and of various magnitudes etc etc; has been found to basically 'mill' degrees enrolling unsuitable applicants from you-know-who categories only to milk them dry etc etc: this from articles I read about something I couldn't care less ( I have never studied with Uop and never will; as a matter of fact I have this far not studied with ANY US institution, so you can't say I am biased ).
What's your opinion?
Of course you can play old Chip White/John Bear game and say 'but it's legal';' after all UoP is a business and business involves making money at all costs'; and chant with UoP lawyers that it all was about 'occasional violations' and 'hate campaigns' from disgruntled students or competitors.
Deliberate and systematic fraud?
Oh, that's reserved for mills.
The bargain basement origins of UoP are detailed in various articles.
And you can't say i sympathize with mills, either.
Never for a moment did i think that any of them ever started doing business out of concerns about 'freedom in academia', 'christian teaching' or whatever fig leaf they happen to wear at the moment: they were in business to press the 'print' button and hopefully laugh all their way to the bank...maybe as a 'lark' like L.I.A.R and Millard Fillmore to finance children charities, eh?
So maybe owners of the mill of the day will take off to Belize as soon as the coded bank account is fat enough...or maybe they will reform, 'invest' a sizable portion of the loot to make themselves presentable and apply for accreditation, maybe under another name...