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I don't get itI don't get itPosted Dec 7, 2010 15:16 UTC (Tue) by sez (guest, #71571)In reply to: I don't get it by dlang Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences
Ejecting people opens $conf up to lawsuits. Where is your evidence for this claim?
Sounds like FUD to me.
Certainly for our conference our insurance policy explicitly *does not cover* claims under molestation, so if someone experiences that at our conference and we have done nothing to prevent it, we are wide open to being sued.
But as far as ejecting people goes - no problem.
False complaint?? What are you talking about?
This is not a kangaroo court, no-ones being charged with anything here. If the worst possible thing happens under this policy and the person gets ejected, too bad - so sad, they go back to work and tell their buddies whatever they want. Its a minor inconvenience.
If the conf organisers don't eject them and the offender goes on to grope and harass more people, the class action lawsuit, not covered by insurance is going to go as high as the national debt.
You want to pay for that?
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I don't get it Posted Dec 7, 2010 19:20 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
if you refund the person's air fare, hotel, and conference registration, then it can approach 'too bad, so sad' but even then it's not a non-event.
your opinion seems to be 'better to punish a hundred innocent people by throwing them out than to miss throwing out one bad person', aka a presumption of guilt.
At least in the US, this is not how things are supposed to work.
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