There are well-meaning efforts to address ethics that will likely make the world a better place, but care needs to be taken to avoid repeating mistakes of the past. In particular, ACL has recently introduced a new process where there are special reviews of some papers for ethics. We would be more comfortable with the new ethics process if there were more checks and balances, due process and transparency. Otherwise, there is a risk that the process could intimidate authors in ways that are not that dissimilar from the ways that academics were intimidated during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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新兴趋势：道德、恐吓和冷战

解决道德问题的善意努力可能会使世界变得更美好，但需要注意避免重复过去的错误。特别是，ACL 最近引入了一个新流程，其中对一些伦理论文进行了特殊审查。如果有更多的制衡、正当程序和透明度，我们会更适应新的道德流程。否则，该过程可能会以与冷战期间在铁幕两侧恐吓学者的方式没有太大不同的方式恐吓作者。