It's safe to assume that once the secret location of the secretive conference stopped being so secret, the organizers and attendees went looking for a more private venue.

Hotel wants to avoid undesirable guests. Seems reasonable.

How is this secretive if venue is public?

Aren’t most events at hotels “secretive”? Our company all hands certainly isn’t a public event. It’s seems reasonable that defense companies may not always want their events to be public and in newspapers

Whatever happened to all those 4channers going after the super secret cabal running the deepstate?

They probably haven't even realized they were Steve Bannon's useful idiots.

Ran small biz off word-of-mouth for years, no secret cabal needed. Real conspiracies just look like bad networking events that got cancelled.

Disagree — most gave up, not because Bannon played them, but because chasing "cabal" online doesn't pay rent forever.

Does he still go on about being heterodox?

"Cult-building" on the agenda?

While Thiel's recent Antichrist talks could come to mind, this could just as easily be business speak, like in the Collins/Porras "Built to Last" where one of the points of great companies is "Cult-like culture".

I guess if you think you're meeting is a secret then you can just say what your agenda is out in the open.

I mean there's no question these guys are the baddies, right? Look at every reason Peter Thiel has been in the news for the last year

Fair, but "secret" and "not on the schedule board" ain't same thing. Ran closed-door offsites before, org just doesn't publish agenda externally, not some conspiracy.

Cult-building agenda item, or just retreat-speak nobody bothered decoding? Whole thing got cancelled before anyone saw it, so aren't we all just guessing off vibes here?

Saw this with Bilderberg leaks in the 90s. Doesn't matter, they just move to some other resort with an NDA and a gravel driveway.

Hotels cancel events all the time, when they prove to be more trouble than they're worth. In extreme cases, they might cancel the event while it's running and kick out the attendees and organizers.

It's a popular hotel in a stunning location. It will do even better after this.

What sort of eejit other than yourself will think, 'I won't book this hotel because they cancelled a Dialog event'?

Nobody's going to be looking for a venue for a wedding or a whale biology conference and think, that hotel looks nice, but they canceled Palantir, so they just can't be trusted.

should a hotel ban nazis who are going there to incite violence? where do you draw the line?

Why is a privately owned hotel compelled to deal with controversy not of its making?

Perhaps things work differently for those of South African persuasion…

> If the hotel cancelled it, it's suicide for the hotel.

This is silly. The hotel will be fine, they could give two fucks about some private party when another will take its place.