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Re:Denied Entry by partycoder on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:27PM (#14659799)
By spreading FUD in this way, I wouldn't be surprised if major conferences happening in SF start moving to other countries: Apple WWDC, GDC, Google I/O, Salesforce's Dreamforce, Oracle's JavaOne... many people go through significant effort to cost their travel and it's no fun that with no notice you can get sent back home.

Really dumb move.

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Re:Denied Entry by CaliforniaKarl on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:11PM (#14659983)
To be honest, I don't think San Francisco conferences being impacted would cause any movement in policy.

Assuming that conferences moving would even impact policy in the first place, I'd expect Las Vegas conferences to be the ones that trigger change. Just on the tech side, Black Hat/DefCon and CES immediately come to mind. Las Vegas relies very much on conferences, and at least one casino/resort owner (Sheldon Adelson) is a well-known Republican supporter.

Remember, though: This is still a low number of visitors being denied entry. It would take a sizable number of regular attendees—or a notable number of high-profile attendees—being denied entry to cause rumblings of change.

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Re:Denied Entry by rurban on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:11PM (#14664396)
They started denying all Chinese visitors of security conferences in Las Vegas in bulk a few years ago already. Our local CIA/NSA guy was very proud of it. "Not welcome!" he said.
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Re:Denied Entry by partycoder on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:02AM (#14660912)
What if one or more keynote speakers are denied entry? That can heavily impact a conference.
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Re:Denied Entry by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:39PM (#14659842)
True.

However, it's coherent with everything else going on around this administration.

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