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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by 33333333333 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:17AM (#12998939)
- Curtis Yarvin, creator of Urbit, disinvited from presenting at the Strange Loop conference on programming languages after Steve Klabnik and perhaps other participants threatened to withdraw over Yarvin's political blog posts.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by prospero on Sunday November 20, 2016 @01:24PM (#13000236)
Calling other races well-suited to slavery isn't political, it's hate speech.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by tajen on Sunday November 20, 2016 @05:40PM (#13001719)
It's up to a juge to decide that. If the population decides, it's called lynching.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by badsock on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:06PM (#13002807)
Absolute hyperbole. Lynching is when someone is killed. Dropping a speaker from a conference schedule isn't murder.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by badsock on Sunday November 20, 2016 @10:46AM (#12999375)
Doing something socially objectionable invites social consequences. I bet that Kony 2012 guy got uninvited from speaking engagements too.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by steveklabnik on Monday November 21, 2016 @07:44PM (#13010667)
NB: I was never participating, so I could have never threatened to withdrawl.
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