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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: 1) by Hardness on Tuesday July 31 2018, @02:53AM (3 children)
Department of Homeland Security seems to Think Different. How much more formality do you need? ^_^
(Score: 2) by John Miller on Wednesday August 01 2018, @02:11AM (2 children)
President Trump loves to listen to the American people. And hundreds of thousands of Americans, almost 400,000, said "Formally recognize AntiFa as a terrorist organization." But according to the official statement from the White House, that didn't happen. President Trump didn't write it, but it's on his site.
In that video, the guy says it happened. He shows a webpage and says "domestic terrorist organization" over and over. But look at what the webpage in his video really says. It doesn't say that. The guy made a mistake when he read it. You listened and you got fooled.
YouTube can be a lot of fun, but sometimes a video is made by just one or two people on a small budget. It's easy for a mistake to slip through. The White House has a large production staff. Not many mistakes get through. There was a mistake with the transcript for the Helsinki Summit. It got caught and it's already fixed.
(Score: 1) by Hardness on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:46AM (1 child)
You mean this article, right:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/antifa-charlottesville-violence-fbi-242235 [politico.com]
You're correct. Lunduke says, "domestic terrorist organization" but the article says "...the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,”
Gosh, My mistake. Well that clears up everything. I guess Daniel's gonna get his Visa any day now!
Whitehouse.gov:
"Nonetheless, law enforcement has many tools at its disposal to address violent individuals and groups. The Department of Justice routinely charges violent individuals, of all types, with a variety of offenses, including arson, threats, fraud, tax violations, hate crimes, murder, and offenses related to the misuse or illegal possession of firearms and explosives."
Oh...
(Score: 2) by John Miller on Friday August 03 2018, @01:29PM
I don't know for sure why Mr. Stenburg hasn't received a visa. I don't have that information. I know that Secretary Tillerson made our State Department much smaller. He wanted to save money, but it caused problems. President Trump had to fire him. Secretary Pompeo is hiring more people, but he's only been in office since late April. Mr. Stenburg applied in early April. I don't pretend to know what's happening with his application.
Otherwise, you understand now. I'm glad I could help. Don't worry about Mr. Stenburg or his colleagues at Mozilla. If our Justice Department finds out they've been committing crimes, charges will be filed, just like the White House says. We have an agreement with Sweden. Swedish citizens who commit crimes against the United States can be brought here and brought to justice.