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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @05:13AM (1 child)
Simple. The executive branch under president Trump, who has generally unrestricted authority to ban foreigners from entering the United States. Actual decision is through a mix of inputs from department of state, homeland security, FBI and a bunch of other TLAs whose information can be reasonably classified.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 30 2018, @12:50PM
I agree that's the problem. But how to fix it? I suggest eliminating most of those TLAs and making much less of that information "reasonably classified" so that citizens and non-citizens have more information about how they can get things done and still comply with whatever decision-making processes are going on.