Oooh, a sane anon amongst a throng of highly unfunny commenters.

Can I just say, as a libertarian, that I hope the people railing against WisCon's decision to not invite someone to their own damn con, and claiming that they do so on the grounds of some weird idea of "free speech", will greet the spontaneous appearence of whatever Wahhabist boogey-man they are currently freaking out about at their own conventions with open arms?

This is the *definition* of freedom, people. You can invite people, and then you can disinvite them if they say dumb, rude, nonsense (or you think so).

Confusing this with book-burning and theocracy demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the very values you people feebly imagine you're defending.

... I'm posting this because everything else in the comments spewing gynophobic/Islamophobic sentiments makes me feel ashamed to be an SF fan.