alt Hacker NewsBecause they didn’t vote the way the author wanted them to.
That’s not very charitable, but honestly I’ve been trying for five minutes now to find or think up an alternative explanation. And coming up blank.
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locknitpicker • today at 6:31 AM
> Because they didn’t vote the way the author wanted them to.
That's my opinion as well. It's a smear campaign lashing back at people who dared to point out flaws.
A more charitable interpretation is something like royal assent for laws. Yes, the king/queen can always just choose to delay it or even block the law, but that'd be unprecedented and the whole system of parliamentary monarchy would be in a serious crisis.
I think the author is trying to get at like, the actual discussion happens earlier / on the WG21 level, and the ISO vote is treated more of a rubberstamp. And that has changed in this instance.