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It is quite insane.

I almost gave a tongue-in-cheek lightning talk at Pycon (mostly about python stuff, but with some tongue-in-cheek political jokes), and decided against it at the last minute. I'm glad I did, otherwise I feel like there would be HN headlines about me getting kicked out of Pycon :)

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In this situation, nobody was kicked out of PyCon or at all sanctioned http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-response-to-inapprop...

Nothing wrong with tongue-in-cheek. So long as it's something you'd be comfortable saying in front of your boss -- it's a professional conference, after all. The Code of Conduct is pretty clear.

Well, as a co-founder, there's stuff that I'm comfortable saying to my CEO that I wouldn't be comfortable saying to a random stranger :P

But politics & religion are a touchy subject, and all things considered, the odds that someone in a crowd of 1k+ people would take a tongue in cheek joke seriously and make a big deal out of it don't feel so low.

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