https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjkjzm/what-went-wrong-at-the-hope-hacking-conference

Anyone who’s ever attended Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE), a semiannual conference in New York City, could probably tell you that expressing support for Donald Trump there is probably not the best way to make friends. The conference is a magnet for anti-authoritarians of all stripes, a place where ACAB, not MAGA, is the four letter acronym du jour. If someone is brash enough to not only wear Trump gear to HOPE, but to harass and intimidate other attendees, they can expect to be expelled from the conference.

Or at least that’s what long-time HOPE attendees assumed, but were disappointed when an attendee wearing a MAGA hat who described himself as a “nationalist” and said he marched at Unite the Right wasn’t immediately removed from the 12th HOPE conference last weekend.