When Codes of Conduct Serve to Protect Criminals From Much-Deserved Scrutiny
The various Codes of Conduct (or CoCs) have been debated a lot lately. Codes of Conduct are not a new problem; they've long been a problem, but because of DHH and some particular projects people express anger. Microsoft Lunduke even lies to people to generate anger.
In our case, or in our experience, criminals have long hidden behind the "shield" (or falsely perceived "morality") of CoCs. Not only corporations do this (to censor their critics); individuals who did truly horrible things - including actual crimes - try to portray themselves as victims of "harassment", "stalking", "discrimination" etc.
CoCs are typically unfit for purpose because enforcement lacks context and suitable understanding of the full background (the "full story"). That leads to mistakes which reward persistently violent people who pressure organisers/administrators by issuing threats/ultimatums to them. Any form of terrorisation must not be tolerated. █