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posted by n1 on Tuesday September 06 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-conference-for-old-men dept.

Douglas Crockford (JSON, JSLint, JSMin, Javascript: The Good Parts) is a founding father of modern Javascript. He is a frequent speaker on the Javascript circuit and, until recently, was the scheduled as the keynote speaker for the Nodevember Conference. For reasons no one can explain, he was removed from the conference schedule to help foster inclusivity. No one (including Crockford) knows why he was banned. Internet commenters have speculated it may have been due to a talk titled "Monads and Gonads" or slut shaming the "promiscuous" web or a his use of the gender (and species) exclusive phrase "hanging out there like a pair of dog balls". Others believe it's because he's a curmudgeon (aka grumpy old white cis heterosexual man). One of the Nodevember organizers (not involved with the decision to ban Crockford) has stepped down.

This is not the first time Crockford has experienced censorship -- he previously ported Maniac Mansion to the NES.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Webweasel on Wednesday September 07 2016, @09:10AM

    by Webweasel (567) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @09:10AM (#398625) Homepage Journal

    WOW.

    You must be exposed to competent people. Where do you find them?

    My dev's have no idea about noscript. One of them put an open spam relay page up (Send custom mail and content from a webpage, no login etc). Luckily, they only got to send 280,000 emails before it was noticed and taken down.

    My infosec (sic) dept popped down last week. "Why does your pc contact this IP so much?" One reverse lookup later (wow how did you do that? says infosec) "Its noscript updating itself, it does a check every time I open firefox" Infosec: Whats noscript?

     

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