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The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken the rare (and possibly costly) decision to relocate an upcoming meeting out of America.
IETF 102, scheduled for mid-2018, was booked for the San Francisco Hilton, but instead will be held in the Fairmont Hotel in Montreal.
The reason, as announced by IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) chair Leslie Daigle, is the President Donald Trump administration: American travel restrictions make attendance uncertain.
[...] travel restrictions have been bounced around between the US legal system and the White House, and the Oversight Committee hasn't seen anything to reduce that uncertainty.
[...] it is impossible to know or predict the extent of the restrictions placed on individuals attempting to attend IETF 102 twelve months from now, or the level of uncertainty that will exist, and the impact that will have on the ability for the IETF to hold a successful meeting in the United States at that time. However, the current orientation and actions of the US government provide no basis for expecting conditions at the US border to improve for non-citizens.
[...] if the IETF cannot stage something in San Francisco, it will likely lose any deposit paid to the venue.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @06:08PM
Social justice is about victimhood ranking and privilege checks.
It goes vaguely like this: You can get a point for being non-white, a point for being a woman, a point for being gay, 5 points for being trans, 5 points for being disabled, 5 points for being an illegal alien, and 10 points for being muslim. Add the virtue points to determine your victimhood ranking.
When two people argue, the person with the higher score is correct. If that contradicts any facts, then the facts are racist and sexist and homophobic and islamophobic. The facts are especially racists, even if the subject is unrelated to race and everybody involved is of the same race.
People with low scores need to grovel before those with high scores, apologizing for current and past group inequality, even when the low-scoring person happens to be worse off than the high-scoring person. It is important for a high-scoring person to be embarrassed about his privilege, and to generally hate himself and all of his kind.
People with low scores are expected to support their own population replacement -- that is, to use UN terminology, a genocide. For example, one could avoid having children or one could adopt children with more virtue points. One must support immigration, since immigrants generally have more points.