Re:Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook
by pas on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:22AM
(#27047099)
Ask the speakers to submit an abstract beforehand, during call for speakers phase. And pick those which you like. Not after the talk has been confirmed.
This editorializing is the equivalent of oppressive regimes inviting a famous band but asking them not to play their "controversial" songs, and the banning them with the obligatory surprised pikachu face when they do. It's not government censorship but it's the chilling effect of G & FB having too much control already.
(Or if the problem was that the organizer found those claims unsubstantiated, they should have cancelled the talk, or could have simply put up a big warning before and after the talk saying that this is the speaker's opinion, not necessarily 100% shared by the organizers ...)
This editorializing is the equivalent of oppressive regimes inviting a famous band but asking them not to play their "controversial" songs, and the banning them with the obligatory surprised pikachu face when they do. It's not government censorship but it's the chilling effect of G & FB having too much control already.
(Or if the problem was that the organizer found those claims unsubstantiated, they should have cancelled the talk, or could have simply put up a big warning before and after the talk saying that this is the speaker's opinion, not necessarily 100% shared by the organizers ...)