Sex robot conference cancelled over backlash to proposed speech by Steve Bannon
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/steve-bannon-sex-robot-conference-lsr-ace-2018-adrian-cheok-university-montana-a8680336.html
An academic conference on sex with robots has been cancelled due to a backlash against a proposed speech by Steve Bannon, Donald Trump‘s former adviser.
Mr Bannon had been due to speak at the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE) this month in Montana, but protests from activists and fellow
speakers forced the cancellation of the event, its organisers said. A linked conference being held alongside ACE – the International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots (LSR) – was
also cancelled over the outcry, a statement on its website said.
“Since the arrangements being made for both conferences were inextricably intertwined, we have had no alternative but to postpone the congress on Love and Sex with Robots,”
organiser David Levy wrote. The sex robot gathering has been “postponed” until January 2020, when it will be held in Las Vegas at the same time as a pornography convention, he
added.
Mr Bannon, a former editor of the right-wing Breitbart News website who served as White House chief strategist from January to August last year, was one the of key the architects
behind Mr Trump’s 2016 election agenda. He had been due deliver the keynote address at ACE.
ACE’s organisers blamed what they called an “anti-free speech ‘fascist style mob’” and claimed the behaviour of people opposed to Mr Bannon’s presence was “very similar” to
campaigns of book-burning in Nazi Germany.
The decision to cancel, taken in mid-November, was “a tragic moment in the history of human civilization”, they said in an unsigned rant on the conference website.
The absolute last thing I want to think of before I plunge into a sex robot is fucking Steve Bannon’s face
the idea of Steve Bannon being some successful mysterious person who makes worthwhile speeches is a bad meme. We need to wipe this meme from the face of the earth.
I guess Bannon is just opposed to every other kind of progress but programmable sex slaves is fine.
https://youtu.be/GD6qtc2_AQA
It makes sense that he'd be invited to speak to the incels, that's his audience.
What's even weirder is that he was speaking at a regular electronics conference that was tied to the sexbot one by the higher ups and people weren't too happy about it.
Bannon appears to be shaking in anger over this.
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