There are enough significant impact conferences like FOCS or the TCS+ symposium, which have no/minimal corporate funding. In the initial years, even ICLR didn't have corporate sponsorship. That actually does not stop people from probing pressing issues.
Reddit censorship may not be a great simile of corporate funding. Maybe even anecdotal. There are more academics on Twitter, and I havent seen evidence of censorship. (I have active accounts in both of them and the difference is quite visible of engagement in Twitter)
> There are enough significant impact conferences like FOCS or the TCS+ symposium, which have no/minimal corporate funding. In the initial years, even ICLR didn't have corporate sponsorship. That actually does not stop people from probing pressing issues.
Sorry if I wrote this in the wrong place. IMO it is a pressing issue that has not been researched. The assumption among many is there is nothing bad happening.
> I havent seen evidence of censorship.
The site in my profile can yield examples under "How do people react?"
Reddit censorship may not be a great simile of corporate funding. Maybe even anecdotal. There are more academics on Twitter, and I havent seen evidence of censorship. (I have active accounts in both of them and the difference is quite visible of engagement in Twitter)