Developer Conference Canceled, After Backlash Over Fake Female Speakers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/backlash-over-fake-female-speakers-shuts-down-developer-conference/

18 8 3 years ago

xenospn• 3 years ago

Why invite women speakers when you can just create fake ones instead?

jdiff• 3 years ago

Evidently it gets your conferences canceled, although you do have close to three years to milk that for all its worth before you blacklist yourself from everywhere.

pavel_lishin• 3 years ago

Eduards Sizovs may be blacklisted, but Katerina Nenastoyaschaya, Angela Madeupname, and Ingrid Noonesdottir can still put on conferences and speak at them!

civilitty2• 3 years ago

Maybe they can get together with that company that was on HN's front page today that fronts OnlyFans stars and messages their customers for them.

inemesitaffia• 3 years ago

. lol Have a link?

reducesuffering• 3 years ago

This saga is so strange. Eduards Sizovs has even been creating sockpuppet accounts on HN, saying:

'As a female developer with 60K followers on Instagram, I went through all this:

– “Programmers don’t look like that!” – “You’re fake. Some dude writes your content.” – “Are you a model or a coder?'

Meanwhile, "Julia" aka codingunicorn, has on Twitter "currently building dev.courses" which is a link that just tells people they can buy the domain from Eduards Sizovs.

https://twitter.com/unicorncoding?lang=en

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=codingunicorn

solardev• 3 years ago

So weird. Would make an interesting novel, I guess?

Reminds me https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29434.Self_Made_Man, where a woman journalist spent a year pretending to be a man to write about it afterward.

Hell, I did that in a MMO and nobody cared, lol.

Developer Conference Canceled, After Backlash Over Fake Female Speakers

Related Stories