alt Hacker NewsThey were quietly, politely protesting, but protesting. If two identical conferences had a rule against protesting, but conference A had a plan to have zero tolerance for it, and conference B decided to play it by ear, evaluate based on the disruption and reasonableness and respond as the situation required ... I'd rather go to conference A. I'd feel the same way about a no smoking rule.
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brookst • today at 1:20 PM
So was the ADA protesting when they printed the article in the first place?
There’s a word for countries where speaking literal, objective, scientific truth is framed as protesting and therefore objectionable.
> They were quietly, politely protesting, but protesting
How? Researchers handing out a journal from the conference organizer’s own journal is now protesting and banned at conferences?
The “protestors” include the editor of the journal. They knew what the rules were and they followed them. If Conference A gets to yank research because a non-science MBA at the journal thinks it could hurt their stock price, and Conference B doesn’t allow that, which conference do you think will do more important work?