Surely you don't think this is that dire. It strikes me as a mild and long overdue bit of social progress.
I don't really care - let the future historians sort this out. Although, I firmly believe that "banned" and "progress" are orthogonal concepts. Bans are designed to slow the progress to prevent social disruptions and unrest. Lenna ban is a token to pacify modern day puritans.
It struck me as a bit inappropriate when I took a scientific computing course circa 2013. You know how older people are considered more likely to have outdated or backwards views on certain topics like racial equality / civil rights, LGBTQ issues, etc.? I think this is another one of those things.
Every generation thinks this way. Recall the Prohibition. Subsequent generations viewed Prohibition apologetics like stuck up moral police. The same will happen with current stuck-up moral police on trying to force their views on racial equality and LGBTQ issues. In other words, your kids will think that you were backwards no matter what you do. 100 years from now this IEEE decision will be viewed on the same level as Spanish Inquisition.
In short, C++ has done some work to provide *a* way through with mostly reasonable guarantees, but it requires a very careful and thorough development discipline. This is in short supply in the average software development team.
Teams that lack development discipline will write unsecure and unmaintainable code irrespective of the programming language they use.
because it's their website. Full stop.
It is not that simple. If it was "just their website", you could sue them directly for anything that they publish. However, they are protected from direct liability because they claim that they are just a conduit for people to express their opinions so they are not liable for any published content. They cannot have it both ways.
Show one instance where someone was held down against their will and given a vaccine. Just one.
There were plenty of examples of people getting fired for refusing COVID vaccinations. "coercion" == "achieved by force or threat"
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra