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Daniel Stenberg, author of the ubiquitous URL fetcher cURL and the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library, and recipient of the 2017 Polheim Prize, has been blocked again from attending a US-based conference. Daniel has written a post in his blog about his two-year odyssey through the byzantine US bureaucracy to try to get permission to attend a work-related conference in California. He has been in the US nine times previously but despite pages of paperwork, hundreds of dollars in fees, and personal visits to the embassy, no dice. As a result the conference will have to move outside the US and probably Canada too if it wants to stay open to the world's top talent.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @10:33PM
Mr Stenberg shouldn't have interfered in U.S. politics. He's a foreigner and the constitution makes it clear that foreigners are not allowed to meddle in U.S election. If you meddle, you don't get allowed in as Mr Stenberg just learned. But if you don't meddle, you get invited to the White House like Mr Putin. So stop meddling.