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I thought Minsky happened in the US Virgin Islands, where it was legal (but now isn’t, thankfully). My issue is that “sketchy” isn’t enough to block a speaker

I thought Minsky happened in the US Virgin Islands, where it was legal (but now isn’t, thankfully). My issue is that “sketchy” isn’t enough to block a speaker from presenting on a subject where they have expertise. If MLK was alive today, would be be blocked for the “sketchy” behavior of cheating on his wife? Not that I have expertise enough to be invited to speak anywhere, but would I be blocked for the “sketchy” behavior of defending MLK? This all seems like bikeshedding and is decreasing our intellectual growth that comes from sharing ideas about free software and developing from them.

tzs 3y ago
> I thought Minsky happened in the US Virgin Islands, where it was legal (but now isn’t, thankfully) Just looking at the natural experiment of differing ages of consent in different First World countries there doesn't seem to be an inherent problem with an age of consent below 18. In the US it is 18 in only 11 states (Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin). It is 17 in 6 (Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, and Texas). In the other 33 plus DC it is 16. In Europe it is 18 in 3 countries (Vatican City, Turkey, Malta), 17 in 2 countries (Cypress, Ireland), 16 in 20 countries, 15 in 12 countries, and 14 in 14 countries. It's 16 in Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and most of Australia (17 in the rest).