In summary: Applebaum has left. TOR can move on. If there are criminal matters, they can be decided in the courts. That's not all there is to it. There's also

In summary: Applebaum has left. TOR can move on. If there are criminal matters, they can be decided in the courts. That's not all there is to it. There's also the valid issue (entirely outside the purview of criminal law) as to whether a serial harasser should be welcomed (and allowed to keynote, no less) at major technical conferences, as if nothing happened -- despite increasingly convincing (and largely no longer anonymous) testimony to the effect that his presence would be highly destructive. Witch hunts and character assassinations are not productive. You see witch hunts and character assassination. Others (like Quinn Norton) see what increasingly appears to be an epicly sad story of people not just "offended", but deeply hurt, shamed, and silenced -- who (thankfully) have now found the courage to come out and speak what they know to be the truth about what they experienced.