So I did a bit more digging.  The "use old SSL" checkbox tells empathy
to use the ancient method of using SSL for the entire jabber connection,
rather than the modern XMPP starttls command.  That is not what we want
for the webex connect case -- we just want to use TLS 1.0 instead of
1.1.  However, as I look through the stack, I see that empathy uses
telepathy-gabble which in turn uses libloudmouth for Jabber/XMPP.  And
unfortunately the libloudmouth API does not have any way to specify a
TLS version, so any fix will have to start by extending that API, and
then plumbing it up through telepathy-gabble and empathy.

Also it's not clear that Todd Kennedy's bug is the same as the bug I
originally reported, which is (stil?!) on the webex connect server side.
One could work around it with a "force TLS 1.0" option on the empathy
side, but as I described above, that may take a bit of work.

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gnutls can't negotiate tls connection to webex connect (empathy vs pidgin 
regression)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418935
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