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From the same Russian guy who wrote about Silicon Valley. You must agree absolutely and unquestioningly with bitter and intolerant leftists or you will not be allowed to speak at conferences:

I was on my way to the airport just a week ago, planning to attend a conference as a speaker. My talk was about DevOps practices. I was planning to present our practical results in the area of multi-server deployment without a single central point of failure. While in the taxi, I checked my inbox and found this:

Hi Yegor,
It has come to our attention that some of your views
on women in tech published as posts on your blog and
twitter conflict with our aims of promoting an inclusive
and diverse conference. In this light, we have decided
to cancel your talk. You are of course still welcome
to attend the event as an attendee, assuming you accept
the terms of our code of conduct. Apologies for the late
notice on this.

...

My social views conflict with their aims and that’s why they decided to not let me speak about DevOps!

I wonder, what would they have done if they had found out that I was, for example, a Muslim and believed that “a woman’s sphere of operation is the home, and a man’s corresponding sphere is the outside world.”

It's time for tech conferences which explicitly ban all consideration of politics and be just about the tech. Why would anyone even want to go to a tech conference where you cannot hear certain tech speakers or tech topics just because of the speaker's politics? You lose out on the tech, which is what you're there for to begin with.

The only code of conduct should be to not attack the other attendees personally.