It's also clear as mud how things got from a tussle on Twitter the whole content/participation of which is also pretty fuzzy to a ban from a conference that had no apparent connection. (The conference is in about a week so nothing happened at the conference itself.)

The Linux Foundation did do a code of conduct post thread on Twitter which, among other things, mentions you can violate an event CoC before an event although it's also unclear what that means. I'm sure more than a few of the 10,000 people attending Kubecon have, at some point in their lives, done something to upset someone else on Twitter.

That was actually their stated reason: "tone policing":

https://twitter.com/cmaxw/status/1192261086810116096?s=20

So that means they fully accepted and swallowed Mei's fabricated, ascribed motivation.

Wonderful. Another big score for Mei's list of successful reputation attacks.

Isn't policing tones what CoC are about?

I doubt 10 people know the real story behind this. Everyone here should practice the MYOB principle.

edit: DuskStar - I obviously edited this substantially, because I added nothing of value and only served to continue discussion of this submission. Both of the conclusions you jumped to are incorrect, it's a shame we were unable to have a mutually respectful exchange about it.

EDIT: My apologies for the lack of conversation here, then.

Original comment:

I'm confused by the significance of that link. Are you trying to suggest that since he was against firing James Damore, or since he's complained about character assassination in the past, his future opinions should be ignored?

What is the MYOB principle? I did a Google search, but Google seems to think I'm looking for a company out of Australia that makes accounting and resource planning software for businesses. Given your commment and the context of this thread, I suspect that's not what you're referring to.

I'm guessing MYOB => Mind your own business.