“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop”

Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by devalier on Sunday June 07, 2015 @12:39PM (#9675326)

You are right of course. From a business standpoint, Alex did the right thing and he will not suffer consequences. Other conferences have done the same and will continue to do so. This is part of a lamentable, ongoing trend. Individual action by people like me will not stop it.

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Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by tptacek on Sunday June 07, 2015 @06:23PM (#9676538)

My guess is, there will be consequences, and they will mostly work to Strange Loop's benefit. Strange Loop actually got marginally more interesting to me after this drama.

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Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by sagichmal on Sunday June 07, 2015 @06:51PM (#9676613)

    > This is part of a lamentable, ongoing trend.

There is plainly nothing lamentable about a private enterprise opting out of suffering a fool a platform. This is literally the market of free ideas at work: if you hold detestable opinions, you may find yourself unwelcome in many places.

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Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by 13thLetter on Monday June 08, 2015 @02:07AM (#9677448)

It's interesting how the people crowing "Free market in ideas! Free market in ideas!" tend to be opposed to free markets in almost any other context. How many of the people enforcing the thoughtcrime laws are self-proclaimed socialists, or Communists, or "Jacobins"?

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