Timeline of SJW Bullshit at Tech Conferences (Last updated 2/18/2022) July 2012: Red Card/Yellow Card/Green Card Idea by KdotCdot to hand out Red/Yellow/Green cards at Defcon depending on the supposed bad behavior of males. It was quickly pointed out that the cards would become collectors items and have the opposite of the desired effect. https://singlevoice.net/redyellow-card-project/ http://archive.is/qTHN7 February 2013: Violetblue’s Talk Pulled From BSidesSF Violetblue was set to give a talk on sex, drugs and harm reduction. Valerie Aurora, from the Ada Initiative, was worried that it would trigger someone who had been sexually assaulted (more likely, she just wanted attention for her and her group). Violetblue ended up being pushed into not giving the talk. http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/44107008572/what-happened-with-my-security-bsides-talk http://archive.is/kk0XR March 2013: Donglegate Adria Richards gets bent out of shape over people making dongle jokes and puns about forking repos behind her. They were not directed at her in any way, but she posted a picture of the guys and at least one got fired. This caused a big hubbub where Adria ended up getting fired too. Quote from Jon Ronson interview Adria Richards https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-shaming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson http://archive.is/R3pes ““Somebody getting fired is pretty bad,” I said. “I know you didn’t call for him to be fired, but you must have felt pretty bad.” “Not too bad,” she said. She thought more and shook her head decisively. “He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewish female. He was saying things that could be inferred as offensive to me, sitting in front of him. I do have empathy for him, but it only goes so far. If he had Down’s syndrome and he accidently pushed someone off a subway, that would be different… I’ve seen things where people are like, ‘Adria didn’t know what she was doing by tweeting it.’ Yes, I did.”” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLK8b8drL8 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richards August 2014: BSidesLV Tower of Condoms Gawker writer Nitasha Tiku gets bent and goes all sex negative because there was a tower of condoms built at BSidesLV. Somehow, this is said to make women feel unwelcome. Disregard that there were a lot of women helping build the tower, and there is also a large gay contingent at the Vegas cons that might want to promote safe sex. http://valleywag.gawker.com/nothing-says-welcome-to-our-tech-conference-like-a-towe-1617722289 http://infosystir.blogspot.com/2014/08/soapbox-rant-sexism-bsideslv-bonehenge.html January 2015: Yogapants Shmoocon 2015 (Yogagate) SJW avriette gets upset about “Mascots, March Madness & #yogapants” talk on social engineering because it was somehow objectifying of women. SJW proceeds to virtue signal, sane people tell them they are full of shit, some white knights come out and one compares yoga pants on slides to shoving people in lockers. http://www.iamit.org/blog/2015/01/sensationalism-doing-more-damage-than-good/ http://theprez98.blogspot.com/2015/01/hacker-cons-and-speech-codes.html March 2016: LambdaConf and Curtis Yavin Because of statements Curtis Yavin (Moldbug) made about race and IQ, some other speakers pulled out of LambdaConf. Apparently the previous year Yarvin has been disinvited from Urbit at the Strange Loop. https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lambdaconf-anyway-35ff8cd4fb9d#.beznosmdk http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/06/curtis_yarvin_booted_from_strange_loop_it_s_a_big_big_problem.html http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/04/tldr-of-lambdaconf-drama.html#.WNnYEY61vMU May 2016: Article about being microaggressed at lock pick village http://www.forbes.com/sites/ygrauer/2016/05/31/on-lockpicking-sexism-and-your-tech-conferences-code-of-conduct-or-lack-thereof/#bbd85b67ae76 August 2016: Defcon Hacker Jeopardy People whined about Hacker Jeopardy having categories like dick, pussy and answers about porn, and a scantily clad woman bringing men beer. The whiners disregard that there were a ton of “trigger warnings” letting you know what type of event it was, there was a half naked man bringing women drinks, and that a woman won the game. https://www.cnet.com/news/defcon-hacker-jeopardy-what-do-dicks-dildos-women-stripping-have-to-do-with-cybersecurity/ September 2016: Nodevember & No Platforming Douglas Crockford Douglas Crockford got disinvited from Nodevember because SJW nutjobs thought he was slut-shaming the web by calling the old version promiscuous. Also, someone interpreted him talking about Nashville Hot Chicken as talking about “hot chicks”. Real tech talk got rejected, but they accept crap like the talk from Nodebotanist. http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford https://youtu.be/tBRGMcdAKzs January 2017: Marlene Jaeckel and RailsGirls Female software engineer of 20 years banned from Women in Tech groups Marlene Jaeckel, volunteered her time to mentor and teach new women in tech through RailsGirls and RailsBridge. After it was discovered that she doesn’t think every shortcoming in life is due to sexism or the patriarchy, she was banned from both groups without an explanation. https://medium.com/@marlene.jaeckel/the-empress-has-no-clothes-the-dark-underbelly-of-women-who-code-and-google-women-techmakers-723be27a45df https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/a-women-developer-i-know-with-many-years-of-experience-decided-that-she-wanted-to-give-back-to-6857862cee0a#.ddnwc7szo https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/thoughts-from-the-editor-172e93eccbb1#.orz2zg59t January 2017: “Counting” of # of women at various security conferences. @SushiDude seems to have an obsession with counting women vs. men at conferences. https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=sushidude%20women%20men&src=typd http://archive.is/rJEDv July 2017: “Wall Of Creep” The “Wall Of Creep” Twitter account was setup for what seems to be doxing people that offend others. Turns out to be mostly whining about microaggressions. The account has since been deleted. https://twitter.com/Wall_of_Creep September 2017: Derbycon Drama This is a lot to go into. Of course it involves Deviant Ollam (Brian Rea) who has a history of calling everybody fascists and Nazis who aren't and serially harasses anybody he doesn't think is woke enough. Never mind that he used to have pictures of a woman being sexually assaulted by his standards on his website. Illwill did a good writeup. http://www.illmob.org/coc/ https://archive.md/N116c Write-up about Derbycon 2017 and when there was a narcissistic feminist takeover attempt. https://pastebin.com/evknksGk https://archive.md/hTbWF Tarah, one of the people involved in that mess, has her own problems. https://www.rockelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/190116-Complaint.pdf (Alternate link as the law firm took down the PDF) https://m.imgur.com/a/1QOjFl2 March 2018: Hack Naked Logo Triggers Dinah Davis whines on twitter about the Security Weekly podcast’s “Hack Naked” trucker mudflap girl logo. https://mobile.twitter.com/Dinah_Davis/status/976170600996761604 http://archive.is/ZgoUw The logo has been around since 2006, and less popular versions have a naked buff or fat man instead. Soyboy talks about boycott for a show and asks for the company name when: 1. She said who it was in the first tweet. 2. It’s Free. 3. Dinah linked the wrong twitter handle for. https://mobile.twitter.com/mlevison/status/976563499836039169 http://archive.is/tvAeD June 2018: Will Has Your Nudes @Lex_is whines about IllWill having “probably has your nudes” in his bio for a talk at HOPE. https://twitter.com/lex_is/status/1011720718667714560 http://archive.is/l69dn IllWill eventually gets deplatformed, but HOPE claims it was for other reasons. Apparently the incident started a thread on /POL/ http://archive.is/F0Z9R June 2018: HOPE, MAGA, TROLLS & MIXED NUTS Someone shows up at HOPE in a MAGA hat, aiming to troll http://archive.is/sWyb4 (vice article, so take with a boulder of salt). Guy stole the man’s hat, apparently an Ancom as he filled his write-up with the word “comrade” and said: "The hacker community has always had a libertarian faction, and libertarians tend to be just a hair away from outright white supremacy, so it was possible they were here as attendees." https://heartsucker.com/blog/2018/07/28/no-hope-for-fascists http://archive.is/lR4ZF Deviant Ollam goes on to defend stealing and violence in a TL;DR diatribe and apparently has little idea what the Proud Boys are. http://deviating.net/words/?p=1001 http://archive.is/wEAat October 2018: Boobies On Board Lindsey Ledford (@deborahlindseyl) has a mental breakdown because some people wrote boobies twice and #metoo on the “What Helps You With Stress?” board outside the Mental Health Workshop at Derbycon. https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1048401891913334785 http://archive.is/mw2FK Massive overreaction, would someone complain if “penises” had been written instead? She also irrationality said @Breaksec podcast was promoting their podcast by covering up the words with their stickers. No, staff covered up the words to make her happy and the stickers were the most convenient way to do it without scraping the board. https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1048401909353209856 http://archive.is/cF7eq Lindsey Ledford also reportedly went on to whine to Walmart (a sponsor) because they had beard combs as swag but nothing specific for women and also whined at the Pauldotcom guys for their “Hack Naked” stickers that had a mud flap girl on them (they also had one with a pudgy man on them). Lindsey also went on to accuse Hacks4Pancakes of “white feminism” (sadly, Lesley later bent over backwards). https://twitter.com/deborahlindseyl/status/1049327024257552384 http://archive.is/QrJsp Lindsey/Deborah’s experience at the time appears to have been being a Barista at Starbucks. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseyledford/ October 2018: MAGA Hats & "Oh How Dare Someone Have Different Politics Than Me!" Hexadecim8 and FalconDarkstar whine about someone wearing a MAGA hat who was security at Derbycon. They make reference to Nazis. Hexadecim8 deleted her tweets like a paranoid coward. Plot twist: The guy in the MAGA hat is of Mexican heritage. https://twitter.com/hexadecim8/status/1048901885288173569 http://archive.is/AL2OU https://twitter.com/FalconDarkstar/status/1048820743763505152 http://archive.is/eR9Al FalconDarkstar was not even there. https://twitter.com/FalconDarkstar/status/1049114370343464961 http://archive.is/clCGY October 2018: It’s OK To Play The Circle Game People freak out because someone in the lockpick village at Derbycon was playing “the circle game” (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-circle-game). People conflate it with a white supremacy sign (that has largely been debunked despite what NiteOwl thinks) because they are not very intelligent. Viss says the person playing the circle game is the same as the person with the MAGA hat. It was not, Viss is just terribly misinformed and has a history of screaming “Nazi!!!” and losing his head. https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1049149451183566855 http://archive.is/TM8uw https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1049156701377744896 http://archive.is/28Ys8 FOOLS gave a perfectly reasonable explanation for the symbol. https://twitter.com/BLMGTN_FOOLS/status/1049176573860036608 http://archive.is/jjLen But millennial dumbasses will not accept it. https://twitter.com/0DDJ0BB/status/1049313744562675712 http://archive.is/R2jFC Kiwifarms poster CrunkLord420 contributed a bunch of evidence of SJW harassment of the conference. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/open-source-software-community.38130/page-45#post-4189522 https://archive.is/r0tr0 January 2019: Derbycon Announces Ending Apparently the Derbycon organizers had enough drama, and decided Derbycon 9 will be their last. https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-9-0-every-beginning-has-an-end/ June 2019: Will Hurd Invited To Keynote Black Hat, Then Disinvited Congressman Will Hurd who's working on Cyber Security legislation was disinvited from the Black Hat conference for his ProLife views and not supporting legislation to provide money to get more women into STEM. https://youtu.be/YxpkBj8VDbs Aug 2019: phpCE Canceled Over Drama About Not Having Enough “Diversity” Crell and others stir drama because of lack of women and minorities set to speak at the conference. According to the conference (via Crell) only one woman submitted to the CFP. After the ticket sales stalled the organizers decided to cancel the event. https://2019.phpce.eu/en/ http://archive.is/O9MzF https://twitter.com/KarlLHughes/status/1151525811616387073 http://archive.is/vGCef https://twitter.com/Crell/status/1152368497823031296 http://archive.is/Jfdng https://twitter.com/Mark_Baker/status/1154113051056099329 http://archive.is/klOUf Nov 2019: @KimCrayton1 gets @cmaxw deplatformed from @KubeCon_ for defending a friend on twitter and wearing a MAGA hat. https://twitter.com/KimCrayton1/status/1191697390799130624 http://archive.is/LBlvb She apparently has a history https://twitter.com/traquorcapital/status/1192919853285306368 http://archive.is/OROkT https://twitter.com/KimCrayton1/status/1187111248678326276 http://archive.is/IfkBM https://reclaimthenet.org/linux-foundation-censorship-kubecon/ http://archive.is/OJWpv This video seems to have set off the “woke” crowd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlckshcJwk&feature=youtu.be More background https://youtu.be/rv5-jzUcQOM October 2021: Squirting Con Badge BurbSecCon, sort of an after event for THOTCon, had a creative badge contest. The winner was someone who created a badge that looked like a Barbie doll that squirted hand sanitizer from her who-ha. Of course people started complaining about misogyny. https://twitter.com/hackershoes/status/1448515296319262726?t=pcS7uEJISwkLiJBerQDeGA&s=19 https://archive.md/VrnvA Is almost being in tears over a tacky badge really the way an adult behaves? Alyssa Miller doesn't seem that well-off psychologically. https://twitter.com/AlyssaM_InfoSec/status/1448488661000069123?s=20 https://archive.md/drAiD February 2022: Chris Hagnagy (@humanyacker) banned from Defcon, supposedly because he abused people but DEFCON wasn't giving any details unleafed the pretense that it might hurt the victims again. Some people did bring forth what seem to be legitimate questions about the finances of the charity that Chris was running (Innocent Lives Foundation), but that doesn't seem to be what Defcon came after him for. As Defcon hasn't really released information about what he supposedly did to his "victims" this entry may be updated later. As Defcon hasn't given many details, here is a short statement from Chris. https://twitter.com/humanhacker/status/1492254023285624836?t=tXAF02k1h1exi5Cev0984Q https://archive.is/gOQ1l Scrap stuff not in timeline: IllMob fallout http://www.illmob.org/coc/ “Coraline Ada Ehmke” creates a Code of Conduct (the contributor covenant) that restricts freedom of opinions. Attempts to force Ruby to adopt it via a bug report. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004#change-56140 LambdaConf’s makes their own COC called FCOP which aims to make sure devs are not discriminated against based on religion or politics, and to curb public shaming attempts. http://heatst.com/culture-wars/hacker-conference-says-no-to-political-correctness-supports-diversity-of-ideas/?mod=sm_tw_post http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/01/11/sjws-tech-conference-political-diversity/ http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/04/tldr-of-lambdaconf-drama.html Geek Feminism Wiki Timeline of incidents: https://archive.is/qXJlk Harassment at DEF CON https://archive.is/qhKz1 The Stages of Social Activist Infection https://medium.com/@dingongoo/the-stages-of-social-activist-infection-3269b7d4a313 Someone has been keeping a list of “toxic” SJWs in tech https://4hibj72nwo2snbydl4bex6y6lljsdkxhe2w7khyddnufqhl46otnooad.tor2web.xyz An example of weaponized CoC http://archive.is/5ecup Nick Monroe turned an older version of this timeline into a tweet thread that got deleted but there is an archive https://archive.fo/2019.01.16-223834/https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1085241481324101634