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Written by Kendra Albert on 2024-10-24 at 15:20

I wrote this in 2021 but the Chatham House rule is still bad. https://kendraalbert.com/chatamhouse

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Written by Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD on 2024-10-24 at 16:04

@kendraserra love this, just shared internally anew to what I imagine is a chorus of hear, hear!s

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Written by Waldo Jaquith on 2024-10-24 at 16:07

@kendraserra @joebeone And ALSO as somebody who has participated in events under these rules where it would be harmful for my statements to be attributed to me (e.g., as a fed), I've found an unattributed quote plus a list of attendees makes it painfully obvious that I said the thing in question. So these rules aren't working at the other end of the spectrum, either.

I was 42 years old when I learned that Chatham House is a real place that exists.

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Written by Kendra Albert on 2024-10-24 at 16:43

@waldoj I think people just don't want to make things confidential. And I get it but also it is not a good solution!

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Written by Edward L Platt on 2024-10-24 at 18:18

@kendraserra Do you think there's a version that achieves the same benefits without the problems? Something like opt-out attribution?

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Written by Kendra Albert on 2024-10-24 at 20:33

@elplatt I think that people use it as a shorthand for "we didn't actually want to develop a more complicated policy re: sharing information" and that anything good will be more case-by-case and specific!

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Written by Scott Murray is offline on 2024-10-25 at 00:24

@kendraserra Thank you for writing and sharing this wonderfully thoughtful piece! I had never heard of the Chatham House rule before, so I learned a lot. :)

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