As a society we have taken the position that once you are a felon you are permanently subject to heightened scrutiny, and people who have been victims of crimes

As a society we have taken the position that once you are a felon you are permanently subject to heightened scrutiny, and people who have been victims of crimes you committed can reasonably ask to not have to interact with such felons. That is what people did in this case, and they were told that if they did recuse themselves they would be censured for breaching the CoC. What they board has done has said that a victim choosing making use of a public registry to know to avoid certain people is someone who should be actively punished. This is despite allowing this kind of avoidance being a significant part of the reason these registries exist in the first place. No one has stopped this pedo from being on the C++WG - otherwise we wouldn’t be here - what happened was a victim of abuse said that they wanted to be given the reasonable accommodation of not working directly with a sex offender. They were told that not only would they not receive such accommodation, but that they would be punished for requesting it.