It would clearly be a huge overreaction for someone to lose a speakers role at a conference for the two comments highlighted in the article.
The sourcing for this claim is incredibly weak, two tweets from people unaffiliated with Nodevember.
Nodevember have stated that they took this decision based on private feedback.
It could be that having Crockford on the speaker list meant that booking multiple other speakers became significantly harder, in which case uninviting him is an (arguably) justifiable logistical tradeoff, but without knowing the specifics its impossible to make any kind of real judgment of the merits of this decision.
Their slack channel transcript where they made the decision was posted. They literally took those two twitter users opinions at face value. Thats right, the people who were so offended by his weak map joke. Its so incredibly stupid.
It would clearly be a huge overreaction for someone to lose a speakers role at a conference for the two comments highlighted in the article.
The sourcing for this claim is incredibly weak, two tweets from people unaffiliated with Nodevember.
Nodevember have stated that they took this decision based on private feedback.
It could be that having Crockford on the speaker list meant that booking multiple other speakers became significantly harder, in which case uninviting him is an (arguably) justifiable logistical tradeoff, but without knowing the specifics its impossible to make any kind of real judgment of the merits of this decision.