alt Hacker News>“They were respectfully given the opportunity to cease this behavior and chose not to which is why they were escorted out.”
I understand the want to protest, but you do know that misrepresentation doesn't help, right?
Refusing to cease by an even organisers order will, yes, result in being escorted out forcefully by security.
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ModernMech • today at 12:31 PM
That was the intended result. The story isn't that people were escorted out, it's that they knew they were going to be escorted out and proceeded anyway. That they felt the need to break the rules is the story, because... why did they feel so strongly? Maybe there's a reason behind it?
mcphage • today at 12:30 PM
> given the opportunity to cease this behavior
What behavior exactly were they being given an opportunity to cease?
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> Refusing to cease by an even organisers order will, yes, result in being escorted out forcefully by security
Sure. But if two groups of people are distributing articles published in the organisation’s own journal, with one of them containing elements of political speech, and the organization censors that one, it’s absolutely valid to ask if anyone in government directed that censorship.
The core of the argument is they should not have been asked to cease distributing their article, that’s literally one of the purposes of an academic conference, plenty of other people were doing it in various ways. The ADA, in claiming it was enforcing its rules, was in fact not following them.