SXSW canceled two panels after threats -- but did nothing when female panelists asked about harassment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/27/sxsw-canceled-two-panels-after-threats-but-did-nothing-when-female-panelists-asked-about-harassment/ But it would seem that this cancellation was fundamentally different from the ones at Utah State or the Society of Professional Journalists' Airplay event. According to Sinders, SXSW organizers repeatedly declined to discuss the security concerns of female panelists in the lead-up to the event. And when organizers received threats to those panelists -- both Sinders and Jones say they were not personally or directly threatened -- SXSW canceled both events without alerting them on what the threats were, who made them or how they could report them to law enforcement. (Neither SXSW Interactive nor its director, Hugh Forrest, immediately responded to The Post's request for comment.) - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
