Why do you lay fault with the sponsor pulling funding, and not with the people who opted to have someone so controversial as a speaker, causing the sponsor to pull funding?
Notice I said Rails community, not Ruby community. Not letting DHH speak at RailsConf is like barring the Pope from the Vatican. There are a lot of big new changes in Rails this year that he has been championing. He was absolutely the right person to give the keynote.
False. Freedom of association is a human right. And nobody is obligated to donate their money to a cause or organization they do not support.
Refusing to associate with someone who would like to "Make Britain White Again" (among many other things) is a completely reasonable stance.
https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance
People are free to say whatever they want. And others are free to respond in a variety of ways, including choosing to not provide support.