SXSW 2020 canceled: Coronavirus leads to cancellation of South by Southwest as COVID-19 spreads

The South by Southwest music, film and technology conference, is the latest victim of the coronavirus.SXSW, as it's known, had vowed to go on, despite recent developer conferences that were canceled by Facebook and Amazon.

The conference this year had several high profile speakers in place, including former presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Yang and Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs and rockers Ozzy Osbourne, director Judd Apatow and to Kim Kardashian West. Nearly 300,000 people attended in 2019.

So much for the hipster parade this year.

Overreact much?

Hmm. Wonder why they never cancelled when the flu is going around. 🤔

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