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Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by whatshisface on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:43PM (#25597494)
One very, very noteworthy signatory:

Scott Aaronson David J. Bruton Centennial Professor Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Austin

That's the guy who writes the quantum computing posts that regularly show up on the HN front page.

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Re:Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing canc... by dekhn on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:59PM (#25597657)
He's been tangentially involved in cancel culture before. See this article https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blo... and also his original post https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4892 which demonstrates his prior interest in this.
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