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By spreading FUD in this way, I wouldn't be surprised if major conferences happening in SF start moving to other countries: Apple WWDC, GDC, Google I/O, Salesfo
by partycoder 9y ago
By spreading FUD in this way, I wouldn't be surprised if major conferences happening in SF start moving to other countries: Apple WWDC, GDC, Google I/O, Salesforce's Dreamforce, Oracle's JavaOne... many people go through significant effort to cost their travel and it's no fun that with no notice you can get sent back home.
Really dumb move.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoTrue. However, it's coherent with everything else going on around this administration.
- CaliforniaKarl 9y agoTo be honest, I don't think San Francisco conferences being impacted would cause any movement in policy. Assuming that conferences moving would even impact policy in the first place, I'd expect Las Vegas conferences to be the ones that trigger change. Just on the tech side, Black Hat/DefCon and CES immediately come to mind. Las Vegas relies very much on conferences, and at least one casino/resort owner (Sheldon Adelson) is a well-known Republican supporter. Remember, though: This is still a low number of visitors being denied entry. It would take a sizable number of regular attendees—or a notable number of high-profile attendees—being denied entry to cause rumblings of change.
- partycoder 9y agoWhat if one or more keynote speakers are denied entry? That can heavily impact a conference.
- rurban 9y agoThey started denying all Chinese visitors of security conferences in Las Vegas in bulk a few years ago already. Our local CIA/NSA guy was very proud of it. "Not welcome!" he said.