Can NeurIPS Be Required to Reject Papers from Sanctioned Institutions under the First Amendment?

Some quick thoughts and background on the state of the First Amendment.

NeurIPS has announced that it will not accept or publish submissions from OFAC-sanctioned institutions. The handbook now states that “providing ‘services’ (which includes peer review, editing, and publishing) to individuals representing sanctioned institutions is prohibited.” The linked list includes a long-time sponsor of NeurIPS, Huawei! [Though technically Huawei is “sanctioned” under an EO and is not on the SDN list, so there are fewer restrictions on US entities/persons dealing with Huawei. NeurIPS has since clarified that they only apply this policy to SDN sanctioned…

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