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A comment on UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research. Parent comment

Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research by boomboomsubban on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:23PM (#26896189)
The focus is rescinding the ban, but they acknowledge that the way to do so is review their actions and set up safeguards to prevent similar things from happening. There's too much bureaucracy involved for them to already publicly review their actions.
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Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research by alisonkisk on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:50PM (#26897330)
The entire statement has only 2 paragraphs, and says absolutely nothing at all about rescinding the ban.
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Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research by boomboomsubban on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:26PM (#26897586)
Why else would they take the ban extremely seriously and take the actions mentioned? I guess it's possible they're worried about the ban spreading, but rescinding the ban seems more likely.
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Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research by burnished on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:58AM (#26900064)
Or, maybe they don't want to be in a position where they are getting banned just in general? Like, maybe you don't mind getting banned from a specific bar, but you do mind being the kind of person that is getting banned from bars.
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Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research by bluGill on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:49AM (#26902135)
Of course, no PR person with anything would allow such a thing into their statements. The UMN is far too big to allow someone without some competency in PR.
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