I followed the outrage about Datacamp loosely on Twitter. At first I thought it was about an actual assault, but so far afaik the only thing publicly known is "uninvited contact", on a dancefloor and the victim reported that several months later.

Sexual assualt or abuse is a crime and should be punished and prosecuted. However, if we treat every situation where two people interact physically and have a different understanding of their relationship as sexual assault, there won't be any sexuality without a written consent form in the future anymore and real victims get marginalized at the same time. I don't know if that is really what we should be aiming for.

I don't see Datacamps reaction as inappropriate in this case,at least if there is nothing more to the story behind the curtain. Humans do errors and in most cases everybody should get a second chance. One moment of misjudgment can be enough today to get fired, you name gets burned forever in the Internet and your life can get turned upside down. And I don't know if that helps the victim in any way.

Probably I will be downvoted for that, but I want to make clear again that I don't tolerate this behaviour in any way and I think the industry needs to be more inclusive and diverse. I just think that you have to differentiate and that public shaming is not on all cases a good solution.