El Reg reports
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: 3, Insightful) by https on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:18PM
(i) It's literal mockery. Go, review the gamergate fuckery. Kinda like referring to opposing counsel in a civil case as "the defendant's liar."
(ii) The new right sycophants never describe their own conduct as virtue signalling. When they state a position, it's because they have well thought out principles. When their opponents state a position, it's because they're desperate for approval.
The problem for the moment isn't the exact terms themselves, it's the consistent and continuous use in attacks. Eventually, this leads to the problem actually being the exact terms themselves - cf. faggot, nigger, dyke, and so on. Bullies love engendering the flinch response.
Offended and laughing about it.