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Yet another reason to never touch that piece of shit language ever again:

CppCon leadership and the C++ Foundation board have worked in secret to protect a person convicted of rape and possession of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery. They have refused any transparency into a process where they have decided to allow this person full access to CppCon as an attendee, speaker and trainer. This person is well-known and trusted in the C++ community.

For some reason a lot of material around this avoids naming the person. He is Arthur O'Dwyer. Here is an article about his arrest and conviction: https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/yonkers/news/sex-offender-convicted-of-raping-drugged-victim-reports-move-into-yonkers/773166/

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[โ€“] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I can't find anything else about this online. It seems like California has pretty advanced privacy laws around criminal history so trying to find the original case through that turns up nothing. It appears he is no longer in the NY sex offender registry either; a search for O'Dwyer turns up nothing.

edit: found this image on kiwifarms, someone screenshotted the NY sex offender page at the time:

[โ€“] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Wonderful state lol