and provide a process for recanting views to get back in the good graces of society The conference isn't the actor here, rather the sans-culottes who, among ot

and provide a process for recanting views to get back in the good graces of society The conference isn't the actor here, rather the sans-culottes who, among other things, have the power to damage or destroy the conference and the careers of those organizing it. Otherwise, you just end up making everyone scared and uncertain because they don't know what the rules are. Which is explicitly a goal of a lot of those sans-culottes (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696162), so that's not a bug, its a feature.