[Cicero]

I gather that it’s a British company of some kind that was sponsoring the show. It seems to be a case of ideology trumping common sense, given the type of people who would usually attend.

Is there some other audience to the extreme left whom they are worried about offending? Because this sure seems dumb to me. Stupid and dumb. You aren’t going to get a lot of effete metrosexuals attending such a show, I wouldn’t have thought.

[SAMWolf]

Rumor has it that sponsors Progressive Insurance and Comcast pushed Reed into making this decision. Although if true, they probably didn’t have to push too hard.

[PapaBear3625]

Reed Exhibitions wiki page says they are "an events organiser, with a portfolio of approximately 500 events in 39 countries including UK, USA, France, Germany, Brazil, Russia, India, China, Australia and the Middle East". They do 35% of their business in Asia.

I'm going to guess that they will just drop being the event organizer for this particular show in the future.