| > thinks it's a good idea to permanently sentence a person The courts have not been involved, so there is no sentencing going on. > This is the height of intolerance I have ever seen. Then you haven't really seen much. See, for example, any instance where intolerance has been enshrined in the US legal system. That's way worse than somebody cancelling a programming conference. It's almost comical that you call this "the height of intolerance", given how trivial it is to find worse examples of intolerance. > One is an uneducated thought the other a dangerous totalitarian action. I don't think you understand what "totalitarian" means. It means "a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible" [0]. None of that is going on here: the government isn't even involved. You're just using "totalitarian" as a vague insult, like "fascist". In a non-totalitarian society, you are free to organize your own conference wherein you invite (or disinvite) whomever you please. The same applies to the organizers of PrlConf (or indeed LambdaConf). That's exactly what's happened. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism |