Had EA Munich hosted Hanson and then been attacked by people using language similar to that of the critics in Hanson’s Twitter thread, I may well have written a post excoriating those people for being uncharitable. I would prefer if we maintained a strong norm of not creating personal risks for people who have to handle difficult questions about speech norms (though I acknowledge that views on which questions are “difficult” will vary, since different people find different things obviously acceptable/unacceptable).
I agree with this.
Had EA Munich hosted Hanson and then been attacked by people using language similar to that of the critics in Hanson’s Twitter thread, I may well have written a post excoriating those people for being uncharitable. I would prefer if we maintained a strong norm of not creating personal risks for people who have to handle difficult questions about speech norms (though I acknowledge that views on which questions are “difficult” will vary, since different people find different things obviously acceptable/unacceptable).