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		mcantelon on Sept 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In defence of Douglas Crockford I'd guess people with lots of social capital in the JS community told the conf orgs Crockford had to go and the orgs decided disinviting him would be less risk than having Crockford's enemies campaign against the conference.

njharman on Sept 4, 2016 [–]

Yeah that's called bullying, or blackmail, from one side and cowardly appeasement from the other.

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