I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s something like that. My first guess was concerns about doxxing of well-known writers. My second was participants who might face professional or social costs IRL for associating with Weird Nerds; I met at least one person who didn’t want to be known-to-be-there for approximately that reason. Which is sad because they were one of the more interesting people I ran into but I had to cut/vagueify them in the writeup.
I didn’t cite either possibility because I don’t actually know the organizers’ reasoning. For all I know there could be California-specific privacy laws about photos at events, or something.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s something like that. My first guess was concerns about doxxing of well-known writers. My second was participants who might face professional or social costs IRL for associating with Weird Nerds; I met at least one person who didn’t want to be known-to-be-there for approximately that reason. Which is sad because they were one of the more interesting people I ran into but I had to cut/vagueify them in the writeup.
I didn’t cite either possibility because I don’t actually know the organizers’ reasoning. For all I know there could be California-specific privacy laws about photos at events, or something.