“I felt compelled to send copies of my itinerary, passport and other IDs, speaker information, etc., to at least three other people who weren’t attending, with the instructions that if I didn’t contact them by a specified time to let them know that I had landed and cleared security, that they should take my information to the Australian consulate,” said JC Lau, a senior producer at Amsterdam’s Twirlbound who has attended every GDC since 2017.

“I scrubbed my social media timelines just in case I posted something that could get me in trouble,” the Godot Foundation’s Coppola told Ars of his preparations for the show.

I have to laugh my country is going off a cliff so fast, at any rate this conference and others like it need to leave the US NOW.

This is not an “eventually we find a new place for international gatherings” kind of thing, the US is collapsing and you are simply not safe here whether you are a US citizen or not, do not come here for your own safety. To be honest I think it is embarrassing that the people running this conference haven’t already moved it to Canada at the very least, it places all of the attendees in a real and present danger.